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This Is A Quiet, Bitter Story Of Much Power. It

relates, from youth to old age, the tragic life of an old maid in the wilds of Canada. The frost bites in every page. Gradually a warm heart is frozen and she goes out of her......

Stinging Nettles. By Marjorie Bowen. (ward, Lock. 7s.)...

a slowly dying husband, a woman falls in love with the doctor. This is the situation which Marjorie Bowen develops in her first modern novel. The man is a rather contemptible......

The Fair Maid Of Ward Our Street.* Tins Novel Should

sell, for it is of the type which appeals to a large number of novel-readers. It is concerned with love and hatred; it is picturesque, violent, emotional and full of variety and......

Laughter Limited. By /cma Putnam. (chapman And Dodd.

3s. 6d.) This delightful novel is a little spoiled by American slang. rhe superficial defect, however, is as nothing when we consider the essential quality of the book. A New......