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The Rose Brocade. By Mrs. Philip Champion De Crespigny....

Nash. 6s.)—The reader of this little romance will have a rather uncomfortable feeling that the author worked the story backwards from the dramatic moment in which the heroine......

Queer Lady Judas. By Rita. (hutchinson And Co. 6s.)—the...

mission of the lady who writes wader the name of "Rita" seems to be the lashing of the vices of the aristocracy, and in this book she attacks the women of London with immense......

Some Recollections Of A Publisher.* Fox Five Years From The

autumn of 1879 Mr. Downey acted as manager—if we rightly describe his work—to Mr. William Tinsley, publisher, of Catherine Street, who had been left, by the sudden death of his......

Novels.

THE CLUB OF QUEER TRADES.* Mn. CHESTERTON is to be congratulated on having found such an excellent springboard, so to speak, as a " take-off " for his new exhibition of literary......

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"The Little Shepherd of Kingdom Come" will be in some respects disappointed with Mr. Fox's new book, for the touches of poetry which distinguished his former novel are not......