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A Lady's Honour. By Bass Blake. (t. Fisher Unwin. 8s.)—

This is another volume of the " First Novel Library." Where place will be found for all these recruits of the army of novelists, already, one might think, over-large, is not......

The Mystery Of The Royal Mail. By B. L. Farjeon.

(Hutchin- son and Co. 6s.)—It takes the author three whole "books" to get to the Royal Mail at all, and the reader who goes to Mr. Farjeon's volume for the sake of being......

Dulcinea. By Eyre Hussey. (edward Arnold. 6s.)—'...

the heroine of this novel, but a wonderful mare, the property of the hero, which the heroine rides to victory in a steeplechase, and which afterwards breaks her back in the......

Progress Which These Supplementary Volumes Supply, Not...

is the record given in the article on "Prison Discipline." Serious offences, such as are punished by terms of imprisonment at Portland, &c., were 2,589 in 1859 and 728 in 1900,......

Current Literat Ure.

A VOLUME OF VERSE. Myrtle and Oak. By Rennell Rodd. (Forbes and Co., Boston, U.S.A. $1 net.)—Sir Rennell Rodd has put together a selection 1..oin his volumes of verse with a......

Belshazzar. By William Stearns Davis. (grant Richards. Os...

the Isaiah of the latter half of the book of Isaiah, Darius Hystaspes, and Cyrus all figure in this novel of ancient Babylon, besides the Monarch who fills what theatrical......