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RE&DAELE NOVELS.—A Tangled Web. By L. E. Moberly. (Ward, Lock,

and Co. 6s.)—A tale quite true to its title. With a heroine who suffers from lesion of the brain, a olairvoyante friend, and a bigamist husband, the tangle ia .eensiderable,— An Engagement of -Convenience. By Louis Zangwill. (Brown, Langham, and Co. 6s.)—Another "tangled web," but the com- Plications are of the familiar 'love v. money" kind.—Dan Rio* Socialist. By the Author of "Miss Molly." (Smith, Elder, and Co. 65:)—Dan Riach is a shadowy figure ; Austin Wyatt is quite real ; Theresa Eerard shadowy again.—The Shadow Davison. By Silas K. Hocking. (F. WarAt: and Co. 6.5.)—A- well-told, wholesome story of country life, the scene being laid in Cornwall.—Seed on Stony Ground. Translated from the Italian of U. L. Moricbini by Ella St. Leger. (Chapman and Hall. 68„) —A good story of the Rome of to-day, a voice of what we may call moral Modernism.—Gilbert Herman With Introduction by Charles Masefield. (W. Blackwood and Sons. 6s.)-1 study of character, with some weak lines in the drawing, but effective on the whole.—The Statue. By Eden Phillpotts and Arnold Bennett. (Cassell and Co. 6s.)—Suited to any reader who likes a highly complicated and extravagant story of mystery and crime.