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In The Shadow Of Islam. By Demetra Vkica (mrs. Kenneth-

Brown) (Constable and Co. 8s.)—This is a fine novel, and it is something more, nothing less, than a contribution to world polities, in which race characteristics must of......

The Catholic Directory (burns And Oates, La (3d. Net)...

for the seventy-fifth time, thus dating back to a little after Emancipation. It gives information, ecclesiastical and civil, about the Roman Catholic Communion. The peers number......

Some Books Of The Week.

frintier nix heading tro notice ouch Boob of the week as have not but TI1011:04 for review in other forme.1 Turkestan: "the Heart of Asia." By W. E. Curtis. (London t Hodder and......

Readable Novels.—lather Iffettrnits. By Adolph Llnusrath....

Sons. 13s.)— father Matornus is a German monk who, like Lather, goes to Et no early in the sixteenth century and leaves it with much the stale impressions.—no Love That Lasts.......

Surface Relief Model Of England And Wales. (sifton, Praod...

Co., Ltd. 21s.)—This map is a very excellent piece of modelling and shows clearly the hills and river valleys of England and Wales. Our only regret is that the size is not......

Novels.

MR. WYCHERLY'S WARDS.* STUDENTS of the tendencies of modern fiction cannot have failed to notice the revival—we might almost call it the revolt—of the sentimentalists. One......

A Touch Of Fantasy. By A. H. Adams. (john Lane.

68.)— It is very seldom that the scope of a book is so completely indi- cated by its title. There is more than " a touch of fantasy " and mystery in this novel, for the hero in......