READABLE NOVELS. -77te Ivory God. By J. S. Fletcher. (John Murray.
Gs.)—A book of short stories, which resembles those baskets of strawberries in which the three or four largest and ripest are put on the top.—Dowland Castle. By the Earl of Iddesleigh. (John Murray. 6s.)—An early Victorian story not without a certain charm, dealing with the claimants to a peerage. It must be confessed that the coincidence of two ladies being called Therese Blanc is rather difficult to credit.— The Call of the .Drum. By Horace Wyndham. (Cassell and Co.
Gs.) —A. very spirited story of a soldier's life. But could the odious hero of the first part have been the admirable here of the second ?—The Thinking Machine. By Jacques Futrelle. (Chap- man and Hall. fis.)—Six "detective" stories, very clever and easy to understand.—The White Darkness. By Lawrence Mott. (W. Heinemann. Gs.)—These " stories of the great North-West " are powerful, appropriately melancholy, and told in the " habitant" dialect.
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