have won, do not always suit her subject; as is the case with Love' (Macmillan); for, as she develops her theme, the mating of manly twenty-five with feminine forty-seven, she sets free a tragical spirit which, like the djins of Eastern legend and the Frankenstein monsters of the West, proves a force too powerful to be brought back to the proper discipline. The first part of her story is comedy and delightful. The characters are deftly realised and convincing, especially the three who are subordinate to Catherine and Chris-the pompous, limited clergyman, who is no new figure in fiction, his appropriate mother, Mrs Colquhoun, and Virginia, the pale, dull daughter-wife. With the second part of the novel, however, darker considerations intervene and the conviction weakens. Brought to the inevitable test, Catherine ages too easily; and her desperate appeals to complexion-mongers and beauty-doctors do not seem true to her type. The joyous admirer of 'The Immortal Hour,' whose personality won for her a young lover, would not so rapidly have succumbed to the lure of the lip-stick. It is a pity that Lady Russell did not reverse the customary treatment of an over-wrought theme by pitting mature and prudent womanhood against crude but charming youth, and willy-nilly have kept him loyally and gladly. In such a conflict the majority of Catherines, with their wit and personality, which are not slaves to time, would surely have been victorious. Mr. Edward Marsh has produced a jolly little book with his translations of Forty-two Fables of La Fontaine' (Heinemann). In every instance he gives the well-known story, written in free-and-easy but yet sufficient verse, and tags on at the end his own moral, improving upon the necessary, or inevitable, platitudes of the original versions. His titles are fresh enough, as 'The Hag and the Slavies' or 'Cat into Lady'; while his dedications, for every fable has its particular titulary deity, add piquance to the dish. For example, he tells us the storyette of The Mountain in Childbed,' which brings forth a mouse; and concludes in this manner 'If I think upon this fable (Which, though untrue in point of fact I see an author at his table Saying, "I am about to sing The war the Titans waged against Heaven's King." It sounds extremely promising; But when the book comes out, what do we find? Mere wind.' INDEX TO THE TWO HUNDRED AND FORTY-FIFTH VOLUME OF THE The names of authors of [Titles of Articles are printed in heavier type. Berkeley, George, 1st Earl of, mem- Bing, Li Ung, 'Outlines of Chinese Blair, Dr Hugh, 'Critical Disserta- Blake, William, 'Songs of Innocence,' Bodenstedt, F., translation of Omar Bolsheviks, the, relations with the Books, Some Recent, 209-218, 416- Brentano, M. Funck, 'Traicté,' edited Broadbent, Henry, 'Leviora,' 268, Brouncker, Viscount, President of Browne, Prof. E. G., 'Year amongst Bryce, Viscount, The Pleasantness - Burns, Robert, O Cottar's Saturday Chesterton, G. K., Wine, Water and Chicago boys, case, 325. China, The Golden Age of, 294–312. 'Cinema, The, its Present Position 'Classics in Education, The,' Com- Classics in England and America, 'Classics, The Value of the,' 98. Conference, The Next Naval, Confucius, career in China, 296-say- Cotterill, H. B., History of Art, Creed, John, member of the Royal Crimean War, 170. Crop-Drying Machine, invention of, Cruisers, construction, 47. Currency, the term, 282. Eastbourne, murder at, 326. Empire Settlement Fails, Where, England and America, The Clas- 'England's Black Tribunal,' 133, 143. European War, 170. Evelyn, John, Diary, 133, 144, 145- tribute of Samuel Pepys, 237. F. Fanshawe, Lady, Diary of, 133, 142. Father of Political Economy, The, Feetham, Mary, verses on, 276. Fenellosa, E. F., Epochs of Chinese Ferrar, Nicholas, Life of, 133. Films, censorship, 315. Fisher, Prof. Irving, on a substitute FitzGerald, Edward, 'Rubáiyát of Fleming, W. K., 'Some Truths Foot and Mouth Disease, cost of Foreign Exchanges, meaning of the France, relative strength of battle. Fraser, G. M., 'The Truth About Fraser, Dr John, opinion of Mac- G. Gale, Dr Thomas, Dean of York, Gasset, José Ortega y, 'Mediaciones,' Germany, result of nationalised Giles, Herbert, 'Confucianism and Giles, Lionel, 'The Sayings of Lao Glanvill, Joseph, Philosophical Con- |