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READABLE NOVELS.—Miss _King's Profession. By E. M. Channon. (Mills and

Boon. 6s.)—A story of a girl who mistakes an inclination to literary work for talent, and sacrifices all her family in the process. She is justly punished in the end by marrying an extraordinarily priggish young clergyman.—The Penalty. By Gouverneur-Morris. (Constable and Co. 6s.)—A story of New York, in which the villain, it is to be hoped, is too villainous for real life. It is not easy to accept his entire conversion as the result of an operation.