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The Advanced Guard. By Sydney C. Grier. (blackwood And Sons.

6s.)—Mr. Grier has allowed his love of a series of stories to lead him this time backwards instead of forwards. "The Warden of the Marches," published last year, is really the......

C Urrent Literat Ure•

THE BRITISH ISLES. Europe, Vol. IL By Geo. G. Chisholm. "Stanford's Compen- dium" (New Issue). (E. Stanford. 15s.)—The new volume of that excellent work, the new issue of......

John Gayther's Garden, And The Stories Told Therein. By...

R. Stockton. (Cassell and Co. 6s.)—There is a delicately restrained extravagance in Mr. Stockton's fiction which is peculiarly attractive. It is different from farce, by which......

The Machinations Of The Myo - Ok. By Cecil Lowis....

Co. 6s.)—"Myo-ok " means in Burmese "township officer," and the particular officer whose machinations we are invited to follow has charge of Myothit ; Anglia, Newtown. By an......

Two Books Of Educational Opinion.

Studies in the History of Educational Opinion from the Renaissance. By S. S. Laurie, A.M., I e L.D. (Cambridge University Press. 6s.)—Dr. Laurie has given us here an extremely......

A Puzzle Which Will Baffle The Most Experienced Of...

What, he will ask in vain, is the object of the young woman who marries her cousin, Alain Tenger, endows him with half her fortune, and then vanishes into space ? This is an......

Contrasts. By Florence Henniker. (john Lane. 6s.)—no One...

to read this collection of short stories who is not overflowing with health and spirits. They are marked by a uniformly hopeless dreariness, and "A Brand of Discord" is almost......

A Prince Of Sinners. By E. Phillips Oppenheim. (ward, Lock,

and Co. 6s.)—Mr. Oppenheim's "Prince of Sinners" does not seem to the reader quite so wicked a person as the author imagines. He is, of course, a Marquis. In fiction the......