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READABLE Novut.s.—The Quest of Ledgar Dunstan. By Alfred Tresidder Sheppard,

(Duckworth and Co. 6s.)—An interesting and elaborate study of the personality of the hero. Incidentally it illustrates the extreme inconvenience which would ensue--besides other more serious consequences—from the total disregard of tho marriage laws.—Fienpingle : a Romance of the Countryside. By H. A. Vachon. (John Murray. Is. not.)—A literary adaptation of the play of that name. An intelligent reader who did not visit the Haymarket Theatre will have no diffioulty in discovering the curtains of each act.

• The Crosses in Cork. Dublin: Tho Talbot Prema. (lc .0.1