Brown.) $1.35.

4. The House of Bondage. Kauffman. (Moffat, Yard.) $1.35.

5. Robinetta. Wiggin, Findlater and McAulay. (Houghton Mifflin.) $1.10.

6. The Spirit Trail. Boyles. (McClurg.) $1.50. NON-FICTION

I. The Doctor's Dilemma, Shaw. (Brentano.) $1.50.

2. Getting On. Marden. (Crowell.) $1.00. 3. Barbarous Mexico. Turner. (Kerr.) $1.50. 4. Yosemite Trails. Chase. (Houghton Mifflin.) $2.00.

JUVENILES

1. Boy with the U. S. Survey. Wheeler. (Lothrop, Lee & Shepard.) $1.50.

2. Boy with the U. S. Foresters. Wheeler. (Lothrop, Lee & Shepard.) $1.50.

3. Mary Ware in Texas. Johnston. (Page.) $1.50.

SAN FRANCISCO, CAL.
FICTION

1. The Broad Highway. Farnol. (Little, Brown.) $1.35.

2. The Golden Silence. Williamson. (Doubleday, Page.) $1.35.

3. Marie Claire. Audoux. (Doran.) $1.20. 4. Molly Make-Believe. Abbott. (Century Co.) $1.00.

3. The Root of Evil.

Page.) $1.20.

Dixon. (Doubleday,

4. The Grain of Dust. Phillips. (Appleton.) $1.30.

5. Robert Kimberly. Spearman. (Scribner.) $1.30.

6. "Me-Smith." Lockhart. (Lippincott.) $1.20. NON-FICTION

1. The Spell of the Yukon. Service. (Stern.) $1.00.

2. England and the English from an American Point of View. Collier. (Scribner.) $1.50. 3. Lights and Shadows of Life on the Pacific Coast. Woods. (Funk & Wagnalls.) $1.20. 4. Yosemite Trails. Chase. (Houghton Mifflin.) $2.00.

JUVENILES

1. Mary Ware in Texas. Johnston. (Page.) $1.50.

2. Winning His "Y." Barbour. (Appleton.) $1.50.

3. Boys' Book of Model Aeroplanes. Collins. (Century Co.) $1.20.

VOL. XXXIII

No 5

The Century Company in making an announcement of Thorpe's Way, speaks of Morley Roberts as an An Old English writer better Friend known in England than in this country. We think, however, that we have heard the name before. Was he not the gentleman who at the time of the Venezuelan controversy wrote, "No Englishman with Imperial instincts can look with anything but contempt on the Monroe Doctrine. The English, and not the inhabitants of the United States, are the greatest power in the two Americas; and no dog of a Republic can open its mouth to bark without our good leave"?

Thackeray's Daughter

While so much is being written about Thackeray it seems that something should be said about the talented daughter who has contributed so much to later editions of the novelist's works. In the first volume of the BOOKMAN there appeared an account of a visit to Mrs. Ritchie made by Constance Cary Harrison some time in 1894 or 1895. At that time the visitor found her "a woman taller than the average of her sex, dignified in bearing, holding herself erect, of fresh complexion, clear eyed and wholesome, although she claims her share of the disabilities of delicate health; in manner genial, outspoken, and impulsive; soft of voice and choice of language; to children, her own and others, kind, playful, tender, with the forbearing indulgence Thackeray showed in a thousand ways toward the young. Dressed in a high gown of black velvet, with a bit of lace worn capwise upon her

Leonard Merrick

Mr.

can audience, is
Leonard Merrick, whose
Conrad in Quest of His
Youth is reviewed else-

where in this issue. His work is not entirely unfamiliar to Americans who have travelled about Continental Europe, for four or five of his novels at least have been published in the familiar Tauchnitz Edition. In England he had long been well known to a fairly wide circle of discriminating readers. If high praise from dignified sources could have won recognition Mr. Merrick would have been a striking literary figure years ago. Dr. (now Sir William) Robertson Nicoll once asked: "When will the public find out that Leonard Merrick is the best narrator living? The day must come." J. M. Barrie is quoted as saying that a new

novel by Leonard Merrick is to him one of the events of the year. Mr. William Dean Howells, in a paper in the North American Review, wrote, "When you have named Jane Austen, whom shall you name next for 'form' in English fiction? To have 'form' in novels is so difficult that I can think of no recent fictionist of his nation who can quite match with Mr. Merrick in its excellence." Commenting upon this opinion of Mr. Howells Andrew Lang said: "I used to think that the eminent American critic and I had but one admiration in common, Jane Austen, but to our pleasant surprise we found that we agreed in admiring Leonard Merrick."