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The Wine Of Illusion. By Bruce Beddow. (cassell. 7s. 6d.)

The son of a small greengrocer in a country town writes a novel and makes money by it. His success turns his • head. He thinks, and his relations think; that fortune- and lie in......

The Bazaar.

TALES, sketches, fancies, apologues—it is a mixed collection that Mr. Martin Armstrong brings together in his new volume. Nineteen pieces, varying -in length from......

Some Commotion. By El M. Ward - (fisher"uuwirt: 7e.-641.)...

a pretty and amusing book about- a girl brought up by rich adopted parents. She returns to live among her: poor relations, by whose. doings and sufferings, she is-greatly amused......

(cecil. Palmer. 7s. 6d.)

No element of" thrill "is absent from this-story. Gamblers, , ghosts, murderers, beautiful women, and the instruments of poetic justice disguised in white habits, masks and......

Fiction.

DIFFICULTY AND RESPECT. ONE reads Mr. Phillpotts with difficulty and with respect. Too often difficulty in an author engenders respect, but in the case of Mr. Phillpotts the two......

Other Novels.—old Sins Have Long Shadows. By Mrs. Victor...

(Constable. 7s: 64.- net.)—That Charlotte Mistley should have kept a compromising letter formanyyears - and carried it about with her on-purpose to drop it in the street is-so......