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The Mystery Of The Bea. By Bram Stoker. (w. Heinemann.

6s.)—Mr. Bram Stoker in his new novel omits no element to- ., Harrow up thy soul ; freeze thy young blood ; Make thy two eyes, like stars, start from their spheres; Thy knotted......

Jair The Apostate. By A. G. Hales. (methuen And Co.

6s.)— This is the story of Samson, filled out with some curious modernities. Among other things, we have the Anti-Semite spirit. Jair, who is represented as the prime mover in......

A Modern Monarch. By Frank C. Lewis. (t. Fisher Unwin.

6s.)—The story seems to us to lack unity. The real subject, we take it, is meant to be the exclusion of love by ambition, and the tardy discovery that the more worthy has been......

The Branded Prince. By Weatherby Chesney. (methuen And...

second chapter of this book is headed "The Dissecting-Room at Barney's," so the intelligent reader will at once perceive that this novel also is of the thrilling order. We......

By His Latest Venture Mr. Wells Maintains, If He Does

not enhance, his position as one of the most stimulating and in- genious of our romancers. Here, as so often, his method is a blend of the obvious and the unexpected. Mr. Wells,......