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READABLE NOVELS. —The Mystery of the Myrtles. By Edgar Jepson. (Hutchinson

and Co. 6e.)—A. story of the occult which ought to satisfy even the most robust appetite. No one could desire a more complete clearing of the scene than that which the last chapter presents.—Seekers. By Frank Savile. (E. Arnold. 6s.)—The subject is suggested by the unrest in the Balkan Peninsula. Treasure-seeking and the politics of the Near East are combined, and the mixture sweetened with love.— A Question of Means. By Margaret B. Cross. (Chatto and Windus. Os.)— A clever study of life as it is affected by considerations of money.

Banaai / By " Parabellum." (Stanley Paul and Co. 6s.)— A story of the war which is to be fought between Japan and the United States, with a Tariff Reform and anti-yellow bias.

Fiddler Matt. By Adam Lilburn. (Brown, Longhorn, and Co. 35. 6d.)—A pretty little story of an Irish child with a genius for the fiddle, who becomes first a strolling player and then a virtuoso.