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Drender's Daughter. By Netta Syrett. (chatto And Windus....

chooses for her theme the good old Sandford and Merton story of the hero of ethical tastes who educates a child to become his wife in later years. The experiment is no more......

Themes From St. John's Gospel In Early Roman Catacomb Paint-

ing. By Clark D. Lamberton. (Princeton University Press.)—The appearance of this volume reminds us how much remains to be done in this country in respect of higher study. It is......

The Price Of Empire. By E. Hobart Hampden. (wm. Black-

wood and Sons. 6s.)—This is an Anglo-Indian story which concerns the unrest which has been going on all over India during the last few years. There is a native assistant......

Other Laws. By John Parkinson. (john Lane. 6s.)—the End Of

this book is both immoral and unsatisfactory, but the chapters which deal with the travels of the hero in Africa are well worth reading. The accounts of the life of the two......

Novels.

RED STAR OF NIGHT.* ME. MACKENZIE is to be congratulated, not only on his story, but on the opportuneness of its publication. This is not the weather for complicated......

Readablb Novel8.—the Bread Upon The Waters. By Georgette...

Heinemann. 6s.)—The story of an actress who, having raised herself to a good position through her own high character and excellence, finds her past rise up before her in a way......

Some Books Of The Week.

[Under this heading we notice such Books of the week as have not been reserved for review in other forme.] Essays. By Rev. H. J. Dudley Ryder. Edited by Francis Bacchus.......