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EYES OF A GYPSY. By John Murray Gibbon. (Methuen. 7s.

Cid. net.)—It is always pleasant to welcome a volume of Canadian fiction. The earlier part of Mr. Gibbon's Eyes of a Gypsy gives a most lively and entertaining account of what may be called upper middle-class life with a tendency to Bohe: mianism in New York: The book later passes to the Cana- dian Rrickies. The central figure is Jacqueline, a palmist, a semi-adVintUresi of great charm and really a" very good sort

of woman atheart. interesting at this moment to have described the. point of new.rif a young: American who wishes to marry a Canadian girl; but is afraid he will be looked upon as a foreigner. Altogether a light and amusing work.