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Reensets Novels.—Rose Campion's Platonic. By Adam Lilburn. (Greening and Co.

6s.)—A story of a lonely woman's life in London.—The Song of Hyacinth. By John Oxenhain. (Methuen and Co. 6s.)—A. collection of short stories of varying merit. "The One who Stayed Behind" is perhaps needlessly painful—The Leading Lady. By Archibald Eyre. (Ward, Lock, and Co. 6s.)—A well-contrived story, turning on marriage complications, and free from offence.—The Ava Mining Syndicate. By Cecil Lewis. (Greening and Co. 6s.)—A picture of life in shady places of the Far East, drawn with no little power.