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A Ladder Of Swords. By Gilbert Parker. (w. Heinemann. 6s.)

—Sir Gilbert Parker has given us a romance of Jersey in the days of Elizabeth. A. Huguenot girl and her lover escape thither from France, and are befriended by the Seigneur de......

The Extraordinary Confessions Of Diana Please. By Bernard...

and Co. 6s.)—Mr. Capes's new book is a very remarkable tour de force. He has created a kind of female Barry Lyndon, the adventuress without principle or pity ; or, perhaps more......

Nigel's Vocation. By W. E. Norris. (methuen And Co. Gs.)—

Mr. Norris is the best of companions for an idle hour,—not because his books lack the graver qualities of good fiction, but because of his charming Thackerayan style, his good......

Mn. Anthony Hope's Continued Abstinence From The Paths Of...

adventure will no doubt be regretted by many of his admirers, but so long as the quality of his workmanship and the interest of his characterisation are as good as in his latest......

C Urrent Literature.

THE YEOMEN OF THE GUARD. The History of the Yeomen of the Guard. By Colonel Sir Reginald Hennell, D.S.O. (A. Constable and CO. .£3 3s. net.)— It is not for common folk to have......