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The Goddess Of Stone. By R. W. Wright Henderson. Methuen

and Co. 6s.)—All good adventure stories, whether they be concerned with history or with lands of imagination, belong to one of two schools : either they are dependent for their......

The Mountain Apart. By James Prosper. (william Heinemann....

book reminds us of the dinner-party in The Adored One, to which, if we remember right, there were invited a woman with no sense of humour and one who had too much, a militant......

Readable Novels.—the Chaps Of Harlon. By Desmond Coke....

Hall. 2s. 6d.)—Mr. Coke's comic parody of a school story is occasionally relieved by touches of real humour, which are worthy of a finer setting.—A Way- faring Soul. By Walter......

Gift-book S,

SOME MORE OS' BOOKS. AN early selection of new boys' stories appeared in our columns last month, but we have received many more from the publishers during the last weeks. The......

The Hat Shop. By Mrs. C. S. Peel. (john Lane.

6s.)—Under the cover of fiction Mrs.Peel supplies a great deal of information as to the business side of carrying on a fashionable modiste's establishment. Women who make a......