From the _London Academy_, December 24th:--
“The six stories in the dainty volume entitled ‘Far from To-day’ are of imagination all compact. The American short tales, which have of late attained a wide and deserved popularity in this country, have not been lacking in this vitalizing quality; but the art of Mrs. Slosson and Miss Wilkins is that of imaginative realism, while that of Miss Gertrude Hall is that of imaginative romance; theirs is the work of impassioned observation, hers of impassioned invention. There is in her book a fine, delicate fantasy that reminds one of Hawthorne in his sweetest moods; and while Hawthorne had certain gifts which were all his own, the new writer exhibits a certain winning tenderness in which he was generally deficient. In the domain of pure romance it is long since we have had anything so rich in simple beauty as is the work which is to be found between the covers of ‘Far from To-day.’”
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II. =THE DANCING FAUN.= By FLORENCE FARR.
III. =POOR FOLK.= By FEDOR DOSTOIEVSKY. Translated from the Russian by LENA MILMAN. With an Introduction by GEORGE MOORE.
IV. =A CHILD OF THE AGE.= By FRANCIS ADAMS.
V. =THE GREAT GOD PAN AND THE INMOST LIGHT.= By ARTHUR MACHEN.
VIII. =THE WOMAN WHO DID.= By GRANT ALLEN.
X. =GREY ROSES AND OTHER STORIES.= By HENRY HARLAND.
XI. =AT THE FIRST CORNER AND OTHER STORIES.= By H. B. MARRIOTT WATSON.
XIII. =AT THE RELTON ARMS.= By EVELYN SHARP.
XIV. =THE GIRL FROM THE FARM.= By GERTRUDE DIX.
XV. =THE MIRROR OF MUSIC.= By STANLEY V. MAKOWER.
XVI. =YELLOW AND WHITE.= By W. CARLTON DAWE.
XVII. =THE MOUNTAIN LOVERS.= By FIONA MACLEOD.
XVIII. =THE WOMAN WHO DID NOT.= By VICTORIA CROSSE.
XIX. =THE THREE IMPOSTORS.= By ARTHUR MACHEN.
XXI. =PLATONIC AFFECTIONS.= By JOHN SMITH.
XXIII. =NETS FOR THE WIND.= By UNA A. TAYLOR.
XXIV. =WHERE THE ATLANTIC MEETS THE LAND.= By CALDWELL LIPSETT.
XXV. =DAY-BOOKS.= Chronicles of Good and Evil. By MABEL E. WOTTON.
XXVI. =IN SCARLET AND GREY.= Stories of Soldiers and Others. By FLORENCE HENNIKER; with =THE SPECTRE OF THE REAL=, by THOMAS HARDY and FLORENCE HENNIKER (in collaboration).
XXVII. =MARIS STELLA.= By MARIE CLOTHILDE BALFOUR.