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READABLE NOVELS. —The Sailor. By J. C. Snaith. (Smith, Elder,

and Co. 6s.)—A story of the evolution of a boy from the slums through sea service to popular authorship.—The Island of Surprise. By Cyrus Townsend Brady. (Cassell and Co. 6s.)—An American novel concerning the marooning of a man and two girls on an island in the Pacifie.—Backwater. By Dorothy Richardson. (Duckworth and Co. 6s.)—A detailed acoount of the feelings of one of 'the mistresses in a private girls' school.—Beware of Purdah. By Olga Paruk (Olga Jenkins). (Sirapkin, Marshall, and Co. 3s. 6d. net.)—These sketches are intended to warn Englishwomen against marrying Mohammedans.