READABLE NOVELS.—The Bachelor Girls. By Keble Howard. (Chapman and Hall.
Gs.)—A story of two young women who soek fortune in the ways of literature and art, but find it else- where.—The Glen o' Weeping. By Marjorie Bowen. (Alston Rivers. Gs.)—This is a powerful story, the subject being the Massacre of Glencoe. The "irreconcilable Macdonalds" are a fine study. So is King William III.—The Long Road. By John Oxenham. (Methuen and Co. Gs.)—The "Long Road" is the way to Siberia. A good story and seasonable.—A Modern Ulysses. By Justus Miles Forman. (Ward, Lock, and Co. 6s.)— This book contains one long story of adventure and several examples of what is known as the short story proper. These last are mostly better reading than the tale from which the book takes its name.—Itinerant Daughters. By Dorothea Gerard. (John Long. Cs.)—A modern novel describing how four girl- friends tried the experiment of filling each other's places in their respective homes.
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