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Some Books Of The Week.

[Under This heading ee notice such Books of tht iscsk as hays not boot) reserved for review in other forma.1 Tess of the d'Urberviiles and Far from the Madding Crowd. By Thomas......

The Robert Browning Centenary Celebration At Westminster...

1912. Edited by Professor Knight. (Smith, Elder and Co. 2s. net.)—This is a collection of the addresses recently delivered in connexion with the Browning Centenary in West-......

Sharrow. By Baroness Von Hutton. (hutchinson And Co. 6s.)...

central feature of this novel is undoubtedly " Sharrow," the ancient seat of the family of that name. Most of the action passes in the house, and it has its effect on all the......

The Care Committee, The Child, And The Parent. By Douglas.

Pepler. (Constable and Co. 2s. 0(1. net.)—It is scarcely five. years since the London County Council inaugurated its plan of attaching a "Care Committee" to every elementary......

Novels.

GEORGE WENDERN GAVE A PARTY.* TEE name of Mr. John Inglis, the author Of George..Wender'? Gave a Party, is unfamiliar to the novel-reading public, brit he maintains, loyally the......

Readable Novels.—the Temple Of Dreams. By Paul B'old. (w. J.

Ham Smith. Os.)—A story dealing with ancient Peru. it is frankly incredible but not unromantic.......

In Accordance With The Evidence. By Oliver Onions....

68.)—The reader when he lays down this book will shudder- ingly hope that Mr. Oliver Onions has not the guilt of murder upon his soul. It must be confessed, however, that......