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READABLE NOVELS.—The Wall Street Girl. By Frederick Orin Bartlett. (Methuen

and Co. 3s. 6d.)—A contrast between the American working girl and her fashionable contemporary, in which the working girl carries off all the honours of war.—The Blue Germ. By Martin Swayne. (Hodder and Stoughton. 534— An account of the extreme disadvantages which would immediately fall upon man should he succeed in obtaining physical immortality. The subject was better and more fully dealt with by Sir Walter Besant in a novel published at the end of the last century.— G reen and Gay. By Lee Holt. (John Lane. 6s.)—An account of what corresponds in France to an Auxiliary Home Hospital. A well-managed espionage plot is worked in as well as a love story.