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READABLE Noveze—Susan. By Ernest Oldmeadow. (E. Grant Richards. 6s.)—A modern

story of a sentimental mis- understanding, which, if it strains the reader's credulous powers to breaking-point, is at any rate lightly and freshly written.— An Irish Utopia. By John H. Edge, K.C. (Hodges, Figgie, and Co., Dublin. Is. 6d.)—A story of Irish life eighty years ago, with something of melodrama and something of realism in it. —The Marriage of Aminta. By L. Parry Truscott. (W. Blackwood and Sons. 6s.)—Comedy inclining to farce, a young guardian and his ward, pretty and rich.—Captain Desmond, V.C. By M. Diver. (Same publishers. 6s.)—A character study, with plenty of incident. The scene is laid on the Indian frontier.—d Midsummer Day's Dream. By H. B. Marriott Watson. (Methuen and Co. 6s.)—" Genteel comedy" of the most delicate kind.—The Mill. By Ralph Harold Bretherton. (Same publishers. 6s.)—A story of present-day English life, with a variety of interests, the raisdoings of District Councils among them.