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D'ARCY CONYERS. By Bertal Heeney. (Hodder and Stoughton. 7s. 6d.)—A

hark-back to the magazine fiction of the 'eighties. We have that little Canadian village by the lake "where D'Arcy went to school," and a simple, moral faith which believes that nothing "tends more to wholesome- ness of manhood than the awakening of the soul where nature is both beautiful and friendly." The book is a wholesome stick of maple sugar candy.