READABLE NOITELS. — The Tower of the Mirrors. By Vernon
Lee. (John Lane. 3a. 6d. net.)—" Vernon Lee's" delicate sketches will appeal to those who know the places, chiefly in Italy and Germany, of which she writes; to strangers they will seem a little monotonous.—London, 1913. By Margaret de Vere Stacpoole. (Hutchinson and Co. Se.)— The tracking and ultimate ruin of a fraudulent company promoter, the adventures of a girl alone in London, a lore affair, and a jewel theft, are all included in this topical revue of the past year.—The Wanderer's Necklace. By H. Dider Haggard. (Cassell and Co. 6s.)—A rather conventional story of the life of a Christian in the ninth century, in Byzantium and Egypt; it has little subtlety, but the usual spirit and fluency of Sir H. Rider Haggard's romances.—Village Silhouettes. By Charles L. Marson. (Society of SS. Peter and Paul. 28. 68. net)---These graceful little silhouettes are full of sympathy with the vanishing beauty of English village life, and are written with an easy pen and a pleasant humour. —The Golden Road. By L. M. Montgomery. (Cassell and Co. 68.)—Miss Montgomery's chronicles of a family of children are rather too thin and gentle to hold the attention of the average reader.—Ths Great Attempt. By Frederick Arthur. (John Murray. 6a.)—This story of the times of the Pretender is distinctly above the standard of the usual historical novel it moves at a stirring pace, and the back- ground is carefully filled in.
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