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Readable Novels.—an Impending Sword. By Horace Annesley...

2s. 6d.)—An early essay of Mr. Vachon's. The story is laid in America, and is interesting as showing the first indication of the author's talent.—The Flying Months. By Frances......

The Tower Of London. By Charles G. Harper. (chapman And

Hall. 7s. ad. net.)—Mr. Harper, who has done as much as any man of. books to give us a knowledge of many things that it is a pleasure to sec and to road about—has he not written......

Cecilia Kirkham's Son. By Mrs. Kenneth Combe. (w....

Sons. 6s.)—The Indian chapters of this clever story are very much better reading than the account of the relations between Mrs. Kirkham and her son Charles, who is the hero of......

Some Books Of The Week.

[Under this heading we notice such Books of the week as have not been reserved for review in other forms.] Origins and Faith. By Sir Joseph Compton-Rickett, (Hodder and......

A Sketch Of Oxford.*

THERE is a slight framework of fiction in this work ; but its contents are mainly fact, very pleasantly pictured. Bridget Goodenough tells the story of a year—i.e., an......

Novels.

THE STORY OF THYRZA.* Miss BROWN is an author of whom her compatriots have good reason to be proud. For not only is she a delightful writer, but she writes stories of American......

Gervase. By Mabel Dearmer. (macmillan And Co. Gs.)—mrs....

novel is to some extent an essay on the theme that a sin which is no sin in itself becomes so if it be thought sinful by the perpetrator. It is apparent that Mrs. Dearmer......