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READABLE NOVELS.—The Bachelors. By Charles Eddy. (Cassell and Co. 6s.)—An

amusing, if rather conventional, little story of the conversion of a convinced bachelor.—My Lord of Essex. By Frances M. Brookfield. (Sir Isaac Pitman and Sons. 6s.)—An historical novel concerning Essex's expedition to Cadiz. The intrigues of the Court of Elizabeth are well realised.— Me and Myst. By S. R. Crockett. (T. Fisher Unwin. 6s.)—A story, plentifully humorous, and curiously compounded of love and stamp-collecting.—Parson Croft. By Norman lanes. (Eveleigh Nash. 6s.)—The tale is a breathless succession of adventures, with an English cleric for hero, and a German soldier of fortune for villain.—The Port of Missing Men. By Meredith Nicholson. (Gay and Bird. 6s.)—Here we have an ingenious combination of the New World and the Old, the succession to a European throne and the fortunes of an American citizen. -- None so Pretty. By the Author of "A Discrepant World." (Longmans and Co. 6s.)—This is a "story of emotions," with a suitable admixture of incident.