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READABLI: NOVEL9.—The Devil Doctor. By Sax Rohmer. (Methuen and Co.

624—Further adventures in which the mysterious Dr. Fu- Manchu is the villain of the piece.—The Web of Frdulein. By Katha- rine Tynan. (Hodder and Stoughton. 6s.)—Not a spy story, but a description of the sufferings of a family in Kensington in the "seventies" and " eighties " under the domination of a German Friulein.— As It Chanced. By H. B. Marriott Watson. (Methuen and Co. Os.)— Consists of stories of which half are concernell with the author's favourite highwayman, while the other half are modern.—Back to the Workl. By Mary Wal). (Chapman and Hall. 6s.)—The reflections of a woman who returns to life after over twenty years in an asylum.