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READABLE NovRts. — Christmas at Poverty Castle. By Tom Gallon. (Eveleigh Nash.

6s.)—A very melodramatic tale with a touch of farce, but quite entertaining.—Muggins of the Modern Side. By Edmund Francis Seller. (W. Blackwood and Sons. 6s.) —A tale of public-school life—i.e., of cricket, football, &c.—evi- dently the work of an expert. —Prose Idyls of the West Riding. By Lady Catherine Mines Gaskell. (Smith, Elder, and Co. 6s.) —Short stories, powerfully told, but commonly too sad for our liking.—Rosette. By Mrs. W. O'Brien. (Burns and Oaths. 3s. 6d. net.)—A very pleasant "tale of Paris and Dublin," with a valuable moral,—that a Protestant girl who goes to teach or be taught in a convent is very likely to become "Catholic."