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READABLE 1STOVEL5.—Here and Hereafter. By Barry Pain. (Methuen and Co.

6s.) Here are twenty-one short stories in which Mr. Barry Pain atones, so to speak, for much of his fun.—Lucky. By Cora Minnett and Pellar Hawker. (F. V. White and Co. 28.6d.) An amusing story of a fortune-teller and her mascot, the cat Lucky. —Adventures in Friendship, by David Grayson (Hodder and Stoughton, 6s.), and A Deserted House, by Elizabeth Stuart Phelps (Constable and Co., 6s.), two volumes of short stories from America Mr. Grayson reminds us in a way of Mrs. Gaskell and Cranford ; Miss E. S. Phelps is herself.-4 Russian Judi: By Fred

Whishaw. (C. V. White. 6s.) A very lively story by one who knows Kassa= life well.