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READABLE NOVEL8.—Hoffinan's Chance. By W. Caine. (J. Lane. 6s.)—A clever

and very close study, mainly of stage-life in London. Elizabeth, Betsy, and Bess. By Lily Scholfield. (Duckworth and. Co. 6s.)—An excellent story of the youth of an imaginative Irish girl, in which Roman Catholicism and Protestantism are treated with good taste.—Wids Courses. By J. B. Connolly (same publisher and price).—Seven capital American stories of the sea, with one of the bull-ring; illustrated.—The Mystery of 31 NM Inn. By R. A. Freeman. (Hodder and Stoughton. 6s.)—An ambitious detective story.