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Recalled To Lice. By Grant Allen. (arrowsmith.)—the Work-...

Mr. Grant Allen's three-volume novels has of late become somewhat hasty and careless, but there is not in this story a single page to which either of these epithets could......

Mahme Nousie. By G. Manville Fenn. 2 Vols. (hurst And

Blackett.)—In the horrible superstitions of the Negroes of the West Indies, who up to a comparatively recent period practised the revolting rites of the Voudou, Mr. Manville......

A Matrimonial Mixture, By C. J. Hyne (ward And Downey),

is a novel which might with advantage have been compressed into one volume, instead of being expanded into three ; for the conver- sations and descriptions with which the rather......

Fifty - Two Further Stories For Boys. Edited By Alfred H....

(Hutchinson and Co.)—Mr. Miles, who edits this truly remarkable volume, believes, fortunately, quite as much in quality as in quan- tity, even when he seeks to give effect to......

Burr Junior. By G. Manville Fenn. (griffith, Ferran, And...

—Tales of school-life nowadays, to be popular, must have their scene laid in some school that can be recognised. The private school, though felfilling a valuable function, is......

King's Ferry, By The Author Of "stanwood Hall" (national...

Depository), is a very good story of the days of the press- gang. Master Marrable, who is the central figure of the plot, and who styles himself a ship's doctor, but is really "......

Joan's Victory. By The Author Of " Starwood Hall." (national

Society's Depository.)—This is much more decidedly a study of character than are most of the books that have come from its author's pen. Joan is a girl of strong feeling, but of......

Fifty - Two Further Stories For Girls. Edited By Alfred...

(Hutchinson and Co.)—It is almost enough to say of this large and delightful collection of stories, that its editor, Mr. Miles, seems almost as much at home in catering for......

The Love - Dream Of Gatty Penning. By Sarah Doudney....

and Co.)—This is one of the best, perhaps because it is one of the shortest, of this author's stories. The motif is intelligible, the plot is not too elaborate, and the......

Millicent Simonds. By Frances Sweyn. (religious Tract...

title of this story, "Through Cleansing Fires," indicates its character with tolerable accuracy. It indicates how a girl of capacity and character passes through the ordeals of......