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Novels.

THE FORE WARNERS. IN the industrial provinces of modern Italy intense but un- settled political thought keeps pace with great material progress. This, of course, has been the......

Rzadablz Novels.—the Japanese Spy. By Lancelot Lawton....

picturesque story, showing with no little skill the recto and verso of Japanese life.--Shadowed. By Barbara 'Glynn. (John Ouseley. 6s.)—A fairly good detective story.—The Future......

The Golden Bose. By Amelie Rives (princess Troubetzkoy)....

Brothers. 6s.)—This is an American story in which the studies of the negro household belonging to the heroine are the most interesting part. As to Meraud, the heroine, the......

The New Quarterly. (j. M. Dent And Co. 2s. 61)—this

"Review of Science and Literature" does better, we think, in the first of the two subjects than in the second. Radio-activity, views of matter, and speculations on the nether......

The Spanish Jade. By Maurice Hewlett. (cassell And Co. 6s.)

—A story of Spain, of which the date is about 1860. The figure of the heroine is well conceived, and her hopeless love for the hero and the sacrifice which she makes for him in......

The Hungry Forties. (t. Fisher Unwin. 3s. 6d.)—this...

published four years ago, but it is not out of season to recall it. That a high price for wheat did not mean comfort to the agricultural labourer is proved over and over again.......

Through The Depths Of Space. By Hector Macpherson, Jun. (w.

Blackwood and Sons. 2s. net.)—This "Primer of Astronomy" is full of interest, as, indeed, a book on this subject, written by an expert, with a gift for putting his facts......

Some Books Of The Week.

[Unaer this heading we notice such Rooks of the ueel: 04 have not bee* reserved for review in other forms.] Souvenir of the Quebec Tercentenary. (Published by Authority of the......