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B.B. of Ardlegay. By W. H. Rainsford. (John Lane. 7s.

tkl.) A comedy of rural life and the complications of village relationships. B.B. comes to be tried for murder and is a little hurt by the anti-climax, which ends his notoriety with an acquittal- There is plenty of fresh and humorous observa- tion, but the author is not sufficiently ruthless in cutting out unnecessary detail.