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BELT:anise Novniz.—The Sunset Gun. By C. R. Milton. (Melrose. 7s.

net.)—The best chapters in this novel deal with the two occasions in the heroine's life when she is an inmate Of a convent in Holland. The account of her married life in India is loss original. The whole book is pleasantly written.— The Voice of the .Merry-Go-Round. By Alan J. Thompson. (Sampson Low. 7s. 6d. net.)—A first novel dealing chiefly with the effect on a son's life of his father's misdemeanours. The author haa constructed a competent story, but is not yet master of his medium, and has not, either, sufficient imagination to depict a society with which he is obviously not personally familiar. He has yet to learn, for instance, that a viscount is not so described— except on the outside of his letters.