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READABLE NOVEL8.—The Song of Surrender. By Henry Bruce. (John Long.

6s.)—Mr. Bruce's novel concerning the Eurasian question in India is complex and evidently sincere, but it is not charming—Stilts. By Adam Squire. (Duck- worth and Co. 6s.)—A pleasant, keen story of six people and a pearl necklace.—The Net of Circumstance. By Mr. and Mrs. Ogniblat L'Artsau. (Mills and Boon. 6s.)—The style of this novel is fluent but verbose; it is chiefly concerned with feminist questions, treated from a fairly commonplace point of view.—Mr. Washington. By Marjorie Bowen. (Methuen and Co. 6s.)—Misa Bowen writes with her usual ardour for a splendid hero, and with a praiseworthy delicacy of style.— Tic Cup of War. By the Author of Especially. (Longmana and Co. la net.)—A little account of life, since the outbreak of war, in an East Coast town; it is sentimental, but pleasantly written.