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READABLE NOVELS.—Invalided Out. By Ruby M. Ayres. (Hodder and Stoughton.

5s. net. )—A paying guest who is highly eligible from the matrimonial point of view is the hero of this story. It is difficult to credit that any one could be quite so ingenuous or become so easy a prey to designing females.—The Butterfly Man, By Marie Conway Oemler. (W. Heinemann. 6s. re t.)—A very delightful novel of which the scene is laid in South Carolina. The principal character is a reformed burglar who is rescued by a Roman Catholic parish priest and who becomes an eminent naturalist. The insect fauna of South Carolina is described in great detail.