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Readable Novels.—child Of Storm. By H. Rider Haggard....

Co. 6s.)—An instalment of Zulu history, introducing the young Cetewayo, Allan Quatermain, and a wonderful woman, of course, with grand fighting and wizardry.—W0 s . By Maurice......

The Pearl Stringer. By Peggy Webling. (methuen And Co....

heroine of this story is the gentlest of girls, brimming over with unselfishness. It is a merit of the author that the character is not colourless or merely negative. Her......

The Journal Of The Rev. John Wesley, A.m. Edited By

Nehemiah Curnock. Vol. IV. (Charles H. Kelly, 10s. 6d.)—We must chronicle the appearance of the fourth volume of the Standard Edition of Wesley's Journal, which covers the......

Paris And Her Treasures. By Ethel E. Bicknell. (methuen And

Co. 5s. net.)—The chief sights of Paris and its neighbourhood are here described in alphabetical order. The treatment and style are more human than those of Baedeker, but there......

The Man Who Would Net Be King. By Sidney Dark.

(I. Lane. 6s.)—This is a story written by a pessimist to illustrate the evils of a model village or small industrial town. " Slavingtonville " is the creation of the Slavington......

Some Books Of The Week.

[Under this heading we tactics such Books of the week as hare not bees reserved for eerier, In other form.) The Journal of an Army Surgeon during the Peninsular War. (Messrs.......

Henry The Lion. By Austin Lane Poole. (simpkin Marshall. 2s.

6d. net.)—This is the Lothian Historical Essay for 1912, and is an excellently written study of the famous contemporary and rival of Frederick Barbarossa.......