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Fiction.

SALT OF LIFE* Is , Mrs. Vaizey is not to he credited with the peculiar qualities which entitle their possessors to rank in the vau of living novel-writers, she has at any rate......

Rank And Riches. By Archibald Marshall. (stanley Paul And...

6s.)—There is, what is rare in modern fiction, a sense of peaceful sincerity about all Mr. Marshall's work. We are conscious of it in two directions—partly, he writes, we feel,......

The Publication Of A Short History Of Poland, By Angelo

S. Rappoport (Simpkin, Marshall, and Co., 5s. net), is timely in view of the interest in Poland and her distracted past which has lately been awakened among us. Mr. Rappoport......

Reada.ble Novels. — Throe Gentlemen From New Caledonia....

and Henry de Halsalle. (Stanley Paul • and Co. 6s.)—This is a capital story, especially when con- cerned with the sea; if it is rather tentative, that is only what a first novel......

Le Regime Des Capitulations Et La Worms Constitutionnelte...

by Louis Ngaosiang Tchou (Cambridge University Press, 7s. 6d. net), is a these de doctoral for a degree at Louvain University, and its publication has been transferred to......

Some Books Of The W1ek.

[Notice in this column does not necessarily preclude subsequent ravine.] Leonid Andreyev, the well-known Russian novelist and dramatist, was stirred by the invasion of Belgium......