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ItibinanLic NOVELS,—Flower of the World. By Mrs. Henry Tippott. (John

Long. Os.)—A modern story, the interest of 'which centres in the figure of the heroine.—The Apostate. By A. Lloyd Maunsell. (G. Allen and Sons. 6s.)—The story of can artist who overcomes the temptation to be untrue to the highest principles of his art.—The Prince's Marriage. By W. H. Williamson. (T. Fisher Unwin. 6s.)—A Royal romance, of which the scene is, as usual, conveniently laid in South-East Europe.—The Belle of the Blue Grass Country. By II. D. Pittman. (C. M. Clark Publishing Company, Boston.)—An American movel of the " seventies," of which the most interesting parts are the stories of the negroes at the close of the Civil War.—The Man who Lived. By Beryl Tucker. (W. Heinemann. 6s.)—A novel of the present day, in which the hero is in love alter. nately with a middle-class girl and with a woman who belongs to the world of the idle rich.—Peop.in-the World. By F. E. Crichton. (Edward Arnold. 3s. 6d.)-L-This is really a child's book, but contains such a charming account of a winter spent by a little girl in a German castle that it will be enjoyed by many grown-up readers.--A White Witch. By Theo. Douglas. (Hurst and Blackett. 0s,)—An exciting eighteenth-century melodrama.