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READABLE NOVELS.—The Black Colonel. By James Milne. (John Lane. 7s.

net.)—The author assures us that the events of this story really happened. It concerns the difficulties which arose in Scotland after the '45. The hero, who tells the story, is in the service of King George, while the " Black Colonel " is a proscribed Jacobite. The story is set against a background of the Aberdeen Highlands.—Torquies Success. By Muriel Hine. (Same publisher. 7s. 6d. net.)—This story is concerned with the career of an ambitious young novelist, who, as he is illegiti- mate, elects always to be known by his nom de plume. Inci- dentally, the problems of a publisher are touched on in a way which makes that usually very unsympathetic figure in fiction seem for once quite human.