22 JULY 1911, Page 24

READABLE Nover.s.—Ths Muscled Ox. By Coralie Stanton and Heath Hosken.

(Stanley Paul and Co. 68.)—A novel of high politics, telling how Queen Carlotta recovered the throne of Moravia, and how her financier profited by it.—Iustin Wise. By Alfred Wilson-Barrett. (Ward Lock and Co., Os.)—A story, at least half comic, of a detective. The hero blossoms out into one of the bankers who lend money at 21 per cent, on note of hand.