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READABLE Nowas.—Book Here. By W. Pelt Ridge. (Methuen and Co.

2a net.)--A volume of short stories, lack- ing in Mr. Pelt Ridge's usual brilliancy of charaoterization, but admirable in form and idea—lie Royal Happiness. By Mre, Everard Cotes (Sara Jeannette Duncan). (Hodder and Stoughton. fie.)—This love story of Alfred, King of England, and the daughter of the President of the United States is a curious mixture of comedy and futurist politics.