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READABLE NOVELs. — The Song of this Stars. By Alec Holmes. (Allen

and Unwin. Se.)—An Indian story, the heroine of which has an English father and an Afghan mother. Her • The Spy in Blatt. By J. Storer Glendon. London: W. Blackwood aue Sews. go. mt.]

life in her grandfather's household is well described—The Way of the Wind. By E. B. Frothingham. (Constable anti Co.

An American novel dealing with the heroine's attempts to reform her very untrustworthy lover, who, be it noted, is eight years younger than herself.—Tales that are Told. By Alice Perrin. (81reffington and Son. 604—Any one seeing the name of Mrs. Perrin on the title-page of a book will remember that her tales are generally told about India. That is the case with the beet of this collection. Meet of the stories are of an eerie nature, "Old Ayah" being the most distinctly ghostly.