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Some Books Of The Week.

frnder this heading we valve such Looks of the week as hare not hams seserred for review sts other forms.] Thompson's writings (two volumes of poetry and one of prose) will give......

The Alias. By Alexander Crawford. (william Blackwood And...

is an entertaining novel of contem- porary life, and is rather more serious in intention than some of Mr. Crawford's former work. The heroine is a mere figure-bead, and the real......

Readable Novels.—out Of The Blue. By R. Gorell Barnes....

and Co. 6s.) — If the temptations of lovers, blameless hero and heroine, alone for a year on an uninhabited island, must be described, the right way is taken in this romance,......

Vision. By Stella Callaghan. (constable And Co. 5s.)—...

the story of a poet who is most blessed when he loses everything which the world would hold dear. As may be surmised, the book has a mystical tendency, but it is cleverly......

Fiction.

AVERAGE JONES.* IN fiction much depends on the start, and the way in which Mr. Adams tells us the necessary facts about his hero and his antecedents in the opening pages is as......

New Volumes In The " Loeb Classical Library."*

THE last instalment of the " Loeb Classical Library" intro- duces to English readers two writers whose works have hitherto been practically inaccessible. For Quintus's Epic has......