READABLE NOVELS.—Ifailoric. By Marie Russell. (Francis Griffiths. 6s.)—Here, in light
sketches of the life of a girl in Canada, is pleasant reading for a week-end; the characters of farm hands and town dwellers are vividly drawn, for the most part by themselves, in dialogue and talk.—Which Heritage? By Lilian Dalton. (Constable and Co. 6s)— Miss Dalton's novel of the religious differences in France in 7750 is written with absolute prejudice in favour of the Protestant creed, but with no little charm and drama.- 0 Planters ! By Willa Sibert Cattier. (William Heinemann, 6s.)—This little story of the breaking of new country on the Divide touches us, in the individual lives and tragedies of its men and women, and in the eternal stubborn harshness of the land. — The Thousandth Woman. By E. W. Hornung. (Eveleigh Nash. 3s. 6d. net.)—Mr. Hornung ia at his best when solving a difficult mystery ; in The Thousandth Woman, though mingling with it a charming romance, he pre- serves all the thrill of the detective story.—The Open Bead. By Halliwell Sutcliffe. (Ward, Lock. 6s.)—A capital story of highway adventure at the time of the Stuart rising, of thrilling, if impossible, heroics, and of Gretna Green.
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