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The Myopes. By Marmaduke Pickthall. (john Murray. 6s.)...

of " SaYd the Fisherman" is decidedly more success- ful,when 'he writes about the East than when he endeavours to describe ordinary English people. It is hardly too much to say......

The Shadow Of The Unseen. By Barry Pain And James

Blyth. (Chapman and Hall. 6s.)—This story begins with Planchette and ends with n terrible witch who lives in time East country, accompanied by a familiar in the shape of an......

Novels.

MAN AND THE CASSOCE.t • IT is more than four years since the publication of The Truthful Liar revealed in Mrs. Ritchie a new novelist of exceptional ability. The interval that......

• Readable Novels.—the Spanish Prisoner. By Mrs. Champion...

(Eveleigh Nash. 6s.)—An excellent story of the early days of the last century—the prisoner is taken at Trafalgar —with a most cleverly contrived surprise.—Love Without Wings. By......

In And Round The Isle Of Purbeck. By Ida Woodward.

(John Lane. 21s. net.) —The Isle of Purbeck—it is no more an island than Thanet—with its area of something less than a hundred square miles, is astonishingly full of places of......

Some Books Of The Week.

[Under this heading we notice such Boots of The wed: as hare not been reserved for review in other formal Egypt and Western Asia in the Light of Recent Discoveries. By I,. W.......