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READABLE NOVELS.—A Mind Awakened. By Henry Bordeaux. Translated by Helen

Davis. (J. M. Dent and

Sons. 6s.)—An interesting analysis of the characters of a man and a woman, seen as the parties in a divorce case ; the translation is admirable.—It's an Ill Wind. By Douglas Goldring. (George Allen and Unwin. 6s.)—This first novel, contrasting two women, is rather crude; but there is in it some ()lever writing.----The Driving Force. By George Acorn. (John Long. 6s.)—Mr. Acorn's story may be, as the pub- lisher claims, dramatic; it is certainly not distinguished.— Happy Hawkins in. the Panhandle. By Robert Alexander Wagon. (Grant Richards. 6s.)—A sporting, humorous, spirited novel of life in Texas. Mr. Wason's use of dialect and of the first person singular is somewhat maddening.