29 JUNE 1907, Page 36

READABLE Novato—The Price of Silence. By M. E. M. Davis.

(A- Constable and Co. es.)---A tale of New Orleans, a powerful exposition of the race question.—The Long Trail. By }baulk, Garland. (Harper and Brothers. As.)—,Tack Henderson, tonched by the gold fever, makes his way overland to the Klondike.—Tfie Passing of the Third Floor Back. By Jerome K. Jerome. (Hurst and Blackett. 2s. 6d.)—Worth reading, if only for the sake of the first of the six short stories. —Where the Sugar Maple Grows. By Adeline M. Teskey. (A. Moring. Is. 6d. net.)—" Idylls of a Canadian Village," not unlike "Cranford," without the humour.