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The Lonely Lake. By Margaret Ashmun. (Macmillan. 7s. 6d. net.)—A

picture of the Middle West ten years ago which will give the English reader a strong feeling of the dreariness of lonely farmhouses in new settlements. The whole book is most competently written, and the heroine, Averil Faraday, is a very attractive creature.