READABLE NOVELS.—The Disappearing Eye. By Fergus Hume. (Digby, Long, and
Co. 6s.)—A melodrama which begins in the orthodox fashion with a murder, and only ends with the dis- covery of the criminal after suspicion has rested in turn on almost every character in the book. —The Invincible Amelia. By E. Maria Albanesi. (Methuen and Co. 3s. 6d.)—The heroihe is a ladylike adventuress who sets to work to live as best she can upon her friends. The book is an account of her various adventures.—Mr. Burnside's Responsibility. By Thomas Cobb. (Mills and Boon. 0s.)—We may doubt whether tho story is worth telling, but it is certainly well told.—Lady Rodway's Ordeal. By Florence Warden. (Ward, Lock, and Co. 6s.)—A. melodramatic tale, sufficiently readable, though we may think that the villains are too intolerably villainous.—Cardi//ac. By Robert Barr. (Mills and Boon. 6s.)—A tale of the early days of Louis XII., in which the young Gascon hero makes a really good successor to D'Artagnan.
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