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Readable Novxm.—patsy. By H. De Vere Stacpoole. (t....

6s.)—An amusing story about Irish people and things.—The Magnate. By Robert Elson. (W. Heinemann. 6s.)—The situation on which this tale is founded is ambiguous and improbable,......

Novels.

THE OPEN WINDOW.* THE go-as-you-please country diary, with its blend of Nature-study and romance, though tending at times to become a mere literary patchwork, is none the less......

Some Books Of The Week.

[Under this heading we notice such Books of the week as have not been reserved for review in other forms.] Victoria the Woman. By Frank Hird. (Appleton and Co. 7s. 6d. net.)—"......

Voices. By J. E. Buckrose. (hutchinson And Co. 6s.)—mr....

has produced a very able study of character and motives. Esther Moor is a woman of ordinary abilities, but with a deter- mined will, and she is possessed with the ambition to......

The Surprising Husband. By Richard Marsh. (methuen And...

Marsh's physiology may be open to question, but at any rate he works out the necessary consequences of his premisses with great ability. The story is concerned with the problem......

The Marriage Of Lionel Glyde. By Olivia Ramsey. (john Long.

6s.)—The author of this book seems to possess the most singular ideas of morality. That Viola Glyde and her lover could comfort- ably marry and live happily ever after in......