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Novels.

SARAH TIILDON.* _Mon of us are conscious of a deep-rooted scepticism as to the possibility of any great purification or elevation of character in any human being. Such a......

Nine Points Of The Law. By Wilfrid S. Jackson. (john

Lane. 6s.)—It is a mistake, as greater novelists than Mr. Jackson have found, to begin by making your hero a fool, and giving him such a name as " Wayzgoose." There comes a time......

Unknown Mexico.*

THESE volumes represent a considerable portion of the life-work of the author, who is a Norwegian by blood and a zoologist by profession. It was when Mr. Lumholtz was on a -......

The Socialist And The Prince. By Mrs. Fremont Older. (funk

and Wagnalls Company. 6s.)—The Socialist in this book is a decidedly clever study, the Prince is too melodramatic and ridiculous for words. This produces an odd sensation in the......

The Composite Lady. By Thomas Cobb. (chapman And Hall....

Cobb has apparently given up the attempt to keep to the high standard of his early novels, for he now always contents himself with slight short stories of no great interest. He......