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Kipling's Sussex. By R. Thurston Hopkins. (Simpkin, Marshall. 128. 6d.

net.)—This is a readable book about Burwash, Winchelsea, Rye, Pevensey, Newhaven, and other places in Sussex which have inspired Mr. Kipling. A chapter is given to the Downs ; the author, of course, discusses the mysterious dew-ponds and records a shepherd's verdict—that they should be called " sheep-ponds " and that they are filled by rain and not by dew. There are some illustrations, including a portrait of Mr. Kipling.