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READABLE NovELs.—Bernittance BiUy. By Ashton Hilliers. (Ifethaen and Co. as.)—Misjudgments

in a banker's family lead to-most exciting events at home and in Southern France. The author plainly has wide interests in life, and keeps his characters clear-cut, thus saving us from mere melodrama, but he should not. abuse English. judges.—Sal/y. By D. Conyers. (Same Publisher and price.)—Horses, hounds, lovers, and the highest spirits in. Connemara.—The Happy Family. By F. Swimnerton. (Same Publisher and price.)—Domestic life in Kentish Town and business life in a .publisher's office, described with close observa- tion that will interest, those who can stand the italics and the phonetic spelling Of the conversations.—The Three Anarchists. By M. S. Rawson. (S. Paul and Co. 6s.)—Somewhat dreary ; but there is good work in the *Andy of a plucky heroine married to and'released 'from a -curmudgeon—The Goodly Fellowship. I3y H. C. Schauffier. (Macmillan and Co. (is.)—An interesting picture of life in Persia, drawn round a naif romance of an American mission.