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The Death Man. By Benjamin Swift. (chapman And Hall....

is a melancholy romance in which the principal figure is the public executioner, while his stepson is the hero. It is difficult for the ordinary person to look at life from the......

Novels.

PAULINE.f Mn. NORRIS must have something like thirty novels to his credit, but there is nothing perfunctory, no sign of fatigue, about his latest book. His limitations remain.......

Some Books Of T H[e Week.

[Under this heading us votiee emelt. Books of the week as hew not been reserved for senor in other furms.1 The Book of Exodus. With Introduction and Notes by A. H. M'Neile, B.D.......

The Scarlet Runner. By C. N. And A. M. Williamson.

(Methuen and Co. 6s.)—The inevitable motor-car written of by Mr. and Mrs. Williamson appears in this book, and is a sort of beneficent providence in which its owner flies about......

It Is The Haunt Of Most Of The Game The

English sportsman knows so Veil, and some of its scenery differs but little from the Northern landscapes of the British Isles. The province itself is divided into two most......

Riadablis Novets.—the Honour Of "z." By Graham Hope....

and Co. Os.)—An excellent story in which English —to speak more exactly, Welsh—life and the complications of Russian politics are cleverly mingled.—Prisoners of Chance. By......

The Annual - Charities Register And Digest. (longman And...

volume of nearly seven hundred closely printed pages — a very ample consideration for the price asked—owes, as usual, very much to Mr. C. S. Loch. It is not too much, in fact,......