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Novels Of The Week.*

THE bilingualism of Wales is a serious stumbling-block in the way of contemporary writers of fiction in the Principality. If they decide on addressing the larger constituency,......

Current Literature.

LePlril Protestant. (Librairie Saint.Joseph, Paris.)—If any evi- dence be necessary to prove the fanatical spirit of modern France, it is abundantly supplied by M. Renauld's......

Music: How It Came To Be What It Is. By

Hannah Smith. (John Murray. 6s.)—This is an interesting and well-arranged little book, the author of which, we judge, from internal evidence, is an American. It is not......