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A MAN NAMED LUICE. By March Cost. (Collins. 7s. 6d.),

—The story of a famous surgeon and a young American' heiress is used to develop dreams, visions, and a philosophy of pain. Miss Cost catches up past and present in the steady; onward sweep of her thought, and ranges London and the centuries for significant character ; and her detail is as Clear, as a Dutch Interior. This is a book for all connoisseurs of good writing on unexpected subjects.