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READABLE NOVELS.—The I nheritance. By Una L. Silberrad. (Hutchinson and

Co. 6s.)—A seventeenth-century story concerned with the wanderings of one William Salter and his ward and half-sister in search of a lost inheritance.—John-a-Dreams. By Katharine Tynan. (Smith, Elder, and Co. 6s.)—A delightful and peaceful story of life in Ireland, with an exceedingly attractive hero.