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The Master Mummer. By E. Phillips Oppenheim. (ward, Lock,...

Co. 6s.)—Lively expectations of adventure are roused in the mind of the reader by a book which opens with the shooting of an old gentleman who is lunching at a, smart restaurant......

The Marathon Mystery. By Burton E. Stevenson. (harper And...

6s.) — This novel starts in the manner made famous by Gaboriau—i.e., with an inexplicable murder—and continues to follow the traditions of the same master by proving the most......

Hearts Of Wales. By Allen Raine. (hutchinson And Co. 6s.)—

The atmosphere of romance which readers of "Allen Raine's " former novels have taught themselves to look for almost of right is present to a large extent in her now historical......

Novels.

READERS of Miss Barlow's earlier books do not need to be reminded that she is no chronicler of the knockabout humours of Donnybrook Fair, and that the Erin she depicts has the......

Little Citizens. By Myra Kelly. (hodder And Stoughton....

Citizens" of the title are "fifty-eight little children of Israel" in a lower East Side school in (presumably) New York. The series of sketches which contain their adventures......

Current Literature.

THE RELATION OF NATIONAL SERVICE- TO THE WELFARE OF THE COMMUNITY. The Relation of National Service to the Welfare of the Community, By T. C. Horsfall. (Sherratt and Hughes. 6d)......