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The Story Of Bien. By Dolf Wyllarde. (w. Heinemann. Gs.)

—The author of this book thinks it necessary in a footnote to disclaim responsibility for the opinions expressed by his characters. It is, however, manifestly impossible that he......

The Foundered Galleon. By Weatherby Chesney. (methuen And...

is really astonishing that any one should take the old, old story of treasure lost at sea as gravely as if it were a new invention, and solemnly write a novel on it. At the......

Novels.

OUT OF 1HE CYPRESS SWAMP * AMID the welter of American historical romances, the scene of which is generally laid in the seventeenth or eighteenth century, a note of......

The Little Saint Of God. By Lady Fairlie Cuninghame. (hurst

and Blackett. Gs.)—The Little Saint of God is a story— almost entirely true to facts—of characters and incidents of the days of the Red Terror. The heroine—bearing the title......

The Cat's Paw. By B. M. Croker. (chatto And Windus.

6s.) —Mrs. Croker is always lively and entertaining. But in her latest novel, The Cat's Paw, she is even more than usually interesting. By a very ingenious device she has......

The Love Of Richard Herrick. By Arabella Kenealy....

and Co. Gs.)—Miss Kenealy has boldly taken an utterance of one of her own characters as the motto of her book,—a species of topsy-turvy dealing which giddily recalls the old......

The Goa Of His Fathers : Tales Of The Slondyke.

By Jack London. (Isbister and Co. Gs )—There is no doubt about the power shown in these "Tales of the Klondyke." Mr. London writes of the rough men who wont north for gold as......