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Readable Novels. —magdalene. By E. S. Stevens. (cassell....

is a novel with a purpose, but makes interesting general reading. It is a clever study of tempera- ment, and although, since it deals with the affairs of the last two or three......

Sea-hounds.*

" DoN'T try a frontal attack on him. Just saunter along and start talking about anything else on earth than Jutland and the ' Killarney' and then lead him round by degrees." By......

Some Books Of The Week.

[Notice in this column does not necessarily preclude subsequent :veleta.] The Problem of Luxemburg. By Xavier Prum. (New York : Knickerbocker Press.)—The author of this book is......

The Scottish Historical Review, Which Is Putting The...

Scottish history on a sotuid scientific basis, prints in its July number an instructive article by Miss Margaret Adam on " The Highland Emigration of 1770." The emigrants, far......

Fiction.

THE SKELETON KEY.* REGRET that we shall have no more stories from the author of The Lake of Wise and other ingenious and delectable romances is enhanced by the fact that The......

Falklands, Jutland, And The Bight. By Commander The Hon...

Bingham, V.C. (Murray. 6s. net.)—Commander Bingham in the ' Nestor' commanded a division of the Thirteenth Flotilla, which helped to drive off the enemy destroyers in the first......