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THE TRANSACTIONS OF OLIVER PRINCE. By Robert Erstone Forbes. (Chapman

and Hall. 7s. 6d. net.) The youth of nineteen who fills the name part in this novel is an adept at keeping "on the windy side of the law " in his adventures. It must be, owned, however, that " Trans- actions " which result in so rapid an acquisition of wealth have, to quote once more the philosophy of Lancelot Gobbo, " a kind of smacks."