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Stapleton's Luck. By Margery Hollis. 2 Vols. (r. Bentley And

'Son. 21s.)—This is a story of the old-fashioned kind, which does not harass with problems of sex or anything else. The hero is -robbed of some money, partly his own, partly his......

A Day With Hounds. By " Covertside." (western Mail Office.)

—It would be difficult to find a more misleading title for a story of pre Restoration days than A Day with Hounds. The tale .opens with a hunting day, and this provides a......

Max. By Julian Croskey. (john Lane.)—we Cannot Under-...

passion some writers have for making a man of Max's type the hero and principal character of a story of five hundred pages. He is a selfish profligate of inordinate conceit......

Autobiography Of A Highland Minister. (hodder And...

almost wholly occupied as it is with an analysis of the writer's religious emotions and convictions, is not a fit subject 'for criticism. The question whether it should have......

Katharine Cromer. By Helen Craven. (a. D. Lines And Co.)

--This is a story of the " Upper Ten." A young married lady tells how her particular friend, Katharine Cromer, daughter .of the Earl of Norwich, married a singer at the opera,......

A Daughter Of Strife. By Jane H. Findlater. (methuen And

.Co.)—The plot of A Daughter of Strife is not a pleasant one. The hero, an army surgeon, sends a message by his friend to the girl he loves, the trust is betrayed, and the false......

Those Dreadful Twins. By Themselves. (t. Fisher Ernwin.)—...

tell their own story, which, though it has nothing very funny in it, is amusing enough. They are a very business- like pair for boys so young,—they are nine when the story......

Her Royal Highness's Love Affair. By J. Maclaron Cobban. (c.

Arthur Pearson.)—This reminds us in a way of Sir W. Besant's " Sealed Fountain," only the parts are reversed, and the story is supposed to be of the present day, for a cycle......

The Devil's Daughter. By Val Nightingale. (digby, Long,...

rich Americans adopt a child,: found on their doorstep, who grows up to be a beautiful woman. She is the cause of untold evil, unwillingly, be it said ; but her name,......