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Skin-deep. By Naomi Royde-smith. (constable. 7s....

Duke of Merioneth marry for reasons of convenience, Lucinda being ambitious and the Duke desiring, for political purposes, a beautiful Society favourite. Neither loves the......

Popular Education In Public Health. By W. Allen Daley And

Hester Viney. (Lewis. Os.)—It must be premised that this valuable little work is intended as a text-book for teachers, and therefore, unfor- tunately, it is not in language and......

Dionys. By Nancy Roper. (alston Rivers. 7s. 6d.)— The Writer

of this novel is just seventeen years old we are told. Sere Leverel, a " rover and conqueror " with mingled Russian and Latin blood in his veins, goes North to explore Arctic......

Current Literature

CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY. By Arthur Gray. (Cam- bridge. Heifer and Sons. 15s. net.)—We welcome a new edition of the Master of Jesus's book, which has been for some time out of......

Human Power. By Clement Jeffery. (mills And Boon. 7s....

reader will agree with almost everything the author has written, except the title, which remains a mystery to the end. " Commonsense Ideas about Health " or " Per- sonal Hygiene......

Fiction

AND THEN-FACE TO FACE AND OTHER STORIES. By Susan - Eiti. (T. Fisher Unwin. 7s. 6d.)—Miss Susan Erti has--a-fine sense:of the dramatic. In fact, the success of these stories is......

This Impassioned Onlooker. By Brigit Patmore. (holden....

damnation men have _further damned women : to drag a creature into hell by its love . . . it is funny and damned, isn't it ? " Such is the familiar theme around which this new......

Birds Of The British Isles And Their Eggs. Vol. Iii.

(Frederick Warne. 10s. 6d.)—Mr. T. A. Coward has given us a welcome addition to his two previous volumes. He opens with a most illuminating chapter on migration, by the light of......

Readable Novels

THE continuation of. NC \ ilk Brand's Narrow Seas is Cloud- burst (John Lane, 78. 6(1.), which, - though said not to be a sequel, will not be particularly interesting to people......