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READABLE NOVELS. —The Hilleru'ay Letters. By T. Cobb. (Chapman and Hall.

5s. net.)—Mr. Cobb is an excellent craftsman, but the present book, though accomplished, is not up to his usual standard of interest.-----A Little World Apart. By Ceorge Stevenson. (John Lane. 6s.)—A most delightful account of life in a country village in, pre- sumably, the " eighties " of the last century. The character-drawing is most delicately finished, and the author has a fresh and discriminating sense of humour.