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The Green Lacquer Pavilion. By Helen Beauclerk• (Collins. 8s. sumptuously

bound and printed book; with illustrations by Mr. Edmond Dulac, which tells in gra.; ciously ornate style of what befell the members of an eighteenth= dentury country house -party. The witty and the robust gentlemen, the gay or demure ladies, all in exquisite costume, are suddenly wafted away to China, where they meet with all sorts of adventures and quarrel or woo according to taste: An air of easy artifice suffuses the book, which provides much gently agreeable reading, and would make a most acceptable gift out of season, or birthday present at a reason- able price.