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READABLE NOVEL8.—A Super Man in Being. By Litchfield Woods. (Stephen

Swift. 6s.)—The study of the blind professor ie a clever tour de force. Those with whom he plays, with outrage er self-sacrifice, are incredibly spiritless people of straw.—The Barmecide's Feast. By John Gore. (John Lane. 3s. 6d.)— Extravagant fooling : social satire and caricature of feuilleton literature, with harmonious illustrations by Arthur Penn. Great was the Fall. By a Naval Officer. (John Long. 6s.) —The conquest of England in 1913. A poor literary romance, but a vigorous tract on naval unpreparedness.