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READABLE NOVELS.—The Double Traitor. By E. Phillips Oppen- heim. (Hodder

and Stoughton. 6s.)—A most exciting story which deals with the efforts of a young diplomatist in disgrace to expose the Machinations of a German spy in the summer of 1914.— Wynnegate Sahib. By Joan Sutherlend. (Same publishers and price.) —An Anglo-Indian story of a civil surgeon who accepts service in • The United Slates and the War : The Mission to flustia ; Politieal Addresses; Miscellaneous Addresses. By FAihn Root. Collected and Edited by Robert Bacon and James Browne Scott. 2 vols. London : Humphrey Milford. ROL ad. m per vol.] t Giryneth of the Welsh Hills. By Edith Nepean. London : Stanley Paul. 16s.I the I.M.S. The descriptions of a cholera camp and of an expedition on the North-West Frontier are well done.—Thumb Nails. By Mrs. Henry Dudeney. (Mills and Boon. 5s.)—Short stories, some of which are concerned with conditions of war and some with conditions of peace. " Eating Cake " is perhaps the most remark- able of the collection.—Billie Impett and Doris. By Captain Eustace Ainsworth. (Hodder and Stoughton. 58.)—A war novel dealing with Army life both at home and at the front.