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Three Girls In A Flat. By Ethel T. Heddle. (gardner,

Murton, and Co.)—The weak point in Miss Reddle's story is the character of Mabel. She is too openly selfish; people may be quite as much devoted as she was to her own pleasures......

Current Literature.

GIFT-BOOKS. Wymps, and other Fairy Tales. By Evelyn Sharp. (John Lane.) —Perhaps it may be objected to these tales that the humour of them, which it does not savour in the......

The Spanish Cousin,. By F. B. Forester. (r.t.s.)—luis De...

runs away from school in Spain and takes ship to Eng- land, and is picked up in London by a medical student, who turns out to be his cousin. The gratitude of Luis is described......

Fridtiof Nansen.*

Mn. WILLIAM ARCHER, in whose debt we were already for the way in which he has widened our view to the North, has now increased our sense of obligation by translating into......

Dominique's Vengeance. By E. E. Green. (nelson And...

opens in France about the end of the sixteenth century, when party feeling ran so high between the Guises and the Huguenot families. Dominique de Gourges frustrates the......