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The Master Of Beechwood. By Adeline Sergeant. (methuen...

6s.)—People who like a wholesome novel with plenty of incident, an honest gentleman for a hero, a thoroughly nice girl for a heroine, and a fair variety of sufficiently......

The Second Generation. By James Weber Linn. (macmillan...

6s.)—In spite of the success of many American romances, we are not sure whether the real specialite of the American author is not the "novel of business." Of course, there are......

Eve Triumphant. By Pierre De Coulevain. Translated From...

by Alys Hallard. (Hutchinson and Co. 6s.)—Another " point of view" about Americans, if not about America, is offered us through a pair of French spectacles in Eve Triumphant.......

The Labyrinth A Romance. By R. Murray Gilchrist. (grant...

6s.)—The Labyrinth is a book with an atmosphere of nightmare and a plot that justifies the title. The characters, mostly bizarre and some repellent, live in a mist and move in a......

The Victors. By Robert Barr. (methuen And Co. Cs.)— It

is like passing from twilight in the forest to gaslight in the street to go from The Labyrinth to The Victors. "I Romance of Yesterday Morning and This Afternoon" is Mr. Barr's......

C Urrent Literat Ure.

THE REV. H. C. BEECHING'S INNS OF COURT SERMONS. Inns of Court Sermons. By the Rev. H. C. Beeching. (Mac- milieu and Co. 4s. 6d.)—These twelve sermons, preached before......