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Novels.

THE DISENTANGLERS.* Ma. LANG has more than once collaborated with other workers in the domain of fiction—Mr. Rider Haggard and Mr. Mason, to be explicit—but since be gave us a......

• Mr. Newbolt's New Volume.*

IF The Sailing of the Long - Ships could hardly be expected to evoke the surprised delight which greeted Mr. Newbolt's Island Race, this is not to imply any falling off in his......

Christian's Wife. By Maude Egerton King. (smith, Elder,...

33. 6d.)—This is a charming story of peasant life in Switzer- land. Some passages might without exaggeration be called idyllic. The volume is small and prettily bound. It is......

Reflections Of Ambrosine. By Elinor Glyn. (duckworth And...

Glyn's new book is very much like the "Letters of Elizabeth." Ambrosine is Elizabeth over again ; but after the first few chapters she is a married Elizabeth. Her husband,......

Kotto. By Lafcadlo Hearn. (macmillan And Co. 6s.)—the...

this volume are various. In it we find nine translations of Japanese tales, some fragments from the diary of a Japanese working woman, and several essays more or less connected......