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READABLE NOVELS.—Shallows. By Frederick Watson. (Methuen and Co. 6s.)—A historical

novel, dealing with the €or•tunes of the Young Pretender in France and in England. A love-story is interwoven with the history, and might be dramatized with considerable success.—Thakur Perhib Singh, and Other Tales. By Sir Charles Crosthwaite, K.C.S.I. .(William Blackwood and Sons. 6s.)—A collection of essays and stories, Indian for the most part, including a pitiful account of a famine year, written with extraordinary intimacy and experience.—The Pot of Basil. By Bernard Capes. (Constable and Co. 6s.)—This tragical little love-story of Italy in the eighteenth century has for its central figure Isabella of Parma; it moves a little slowly in spite of the stirring setting of the Seven Years' War.