RIADABLE NOVELL—Where Every Prospect Pleases. By Edmund Francis Seller. (W.
Blackwood and Sons. 6s.)—A distinctly humorous, if somewhat undistinguished, story of English life, with a change of scene to Ceylon.—A Reformer by Proxy. By John Parkinson. (John Lane. 6s.)—Readable, if one understands the dialect of the Stock Exchange.—The Slaves of Allah. By G. B. Burgin. (Hutchinson and Co. 6s.)—A. very romantic story, with an English girl for heroine, an Arab for hero, and a Turk, not a "Young Turk," for villain.— Brother or Husband ? By L. T. Meade. (F. V. White and Co. 6s.)-1 "deceased-wife's-sister" novel was inevitable. If any one wants to read it, here it is, and without serious offence.— The Adventures of Captain Tack. By Max Pemberton. (Mills and Boon. 6s.)—" Captain Jack" cruises in the Mediterranean and meets with adventures, tragic and comic. Perhaps the best thing in the volume is "The Vengeance of Djala,."—The Van Dylk Diamonds. By Arthur Applin. (Ward, Lock, and Co. 6s.)—A very blood-curdling story, with robberies, murders, the doings of the "Scientific Socialists," and so forth.
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