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The Yellow Crayon. By E. Phillips Oppenheim. (ward, Lock,...

Co. 6s.)—Mr. Oppenheim, without fear of the pains and penalties of lase - majeste, has given the secret society of tho Yellow Crayon no less august a head than the Emperor......

The Magazines.

THE root idea of Mr. Arthur Adams's remarkable paper on "A Colonial View of Colonial Loyalty," which is given the place of honour in the October number of the Nineteenth......

Current Literature.

BIRMINGHAM ECONOMICS. Mr. Chamberlain's Proposals : What they Mean and What We Shall Gain by them. By C. A. Vince, MA., General Secretary of the Imperial Tariff Committee. With......

Novels.

MR. WOODHOUSE'S CORRESPONDENCE.* THE epistolary treatment of fiction, as recent experience has shown, lends itself excellently to the method of joint author- ship. The structure......

Treasure And Heart. By Mary Deane. (john Murray. 6s.)—...

and Heart just misses being a very interesting book. The story is fairly constructed, the Italian miss - en - scene is dis- tinctly good, and the characters are not badly drawn.......