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WHEN WILLIAM CAME.t SINCE the days of The Battle of Dorking there have been a good many examples of that form of prospective romance which takes for its theme the invasion of......

In Action. By F. Britten Austin. (thomas Nelson And Sons.

2s. net.)—There is nothing in Mr. Austin's sketches of the so-called glory and glamour of warfare; they are the more awful and impressive for being far different in tone from......

Gift-books.

MORE FAIRY STORIES. Suvue.u. books of fairy tales published in the last few weeks call for notice before Christmas, if at all. Of old friends, Mrs. Craik's The Fairy Book (T.......

Julia And I In Canada. By The Author Of Daphne

in the Fatherland. (Andrew Melrose. 6s.)—This is a most amusing little work, which tells of the initial struggles of two Englishwomen who set up house with a brother for a year......

Her Ladyship's Conscience. By Ellen Thorneycroft Fowler...

and Stoughton. 65.)—Lady Esther Wyvern, the "ladyship" of the title, possessed a most uncomfortable conscience which caused her to do much harm. On the sole ground of her being......

Readable Novels.—the Argyle Case. By Arthur Horn Blow....

Brothers. 6s.)—An American detective story partly founded on a play. The intelligent reader will have no difficulty in discovering the "curtains" of the different acts.—The......