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C Iirrent Lite Rat (ire.

ANNUAL OF THE BRITISH SCHOOL AT ATHENS. Annual of the British School at Athens, 1905 - 6. (Macmillan and Co. 25s. net.)—Crete again occupies a considerable space in the Annual,......

Readable Novels.—the Plotters Of Peking. By Carlton Dave....

6s.)—A series of marvellous adventures and escapes for which "hairbreadth" is a quite inadequate epithet. Ross Durham, Surgeon. By David Lyall. (Hodder and Stoughton. 6s.)—A......

Church And Empire.

Church and Empire. Edited by the Rev. John Ellison and the Rev. G. H. S. Walpole. (Longmans and Co. Ss. 6d. net.)—The first. partof this volume is entitled "Principles of......

The Call Of The Deep.. By Frank' '1'. Biffien. (nisbet

and Co. 6s.)—Mr. Bullen need not be apprehensive of the failure whieh often happens to continuations. We aro all glad to see Frank Brown again and follow him - till he reaches......

Novels.

THE STOOPING LADY.* WE take it that so far as regards the treatment of misalliances in fiction, the formula adopted in the legend of King Cophetua claims priority in time over......