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Vanderdecken. By H. de Vere Stacpoole. (Hutchinson. 7s. 6d.) A

new novel of the Pacific, not very likely to affect in either sense the number of Mr. Stacpoole's admirers. Indeed, he would be a subtle epigrammatist who could say in a short space anything in any way to distinguish it from its predecessors.