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Fiction.

A WAR NOVEL.* Ix the early part of his book Mr. Mason gives us a pleasant reminder of the world as it used to be and as it is no longer. His characters make love, go yachting......

Readable Novets.—the Ivory Trail. By Talbot Mundy....

Is. 6d. not.) — A story of East Africa, telling of a hunt for a million tusks of ivory. There are many exciting episodes in the book, which gives a vivid account of the doings......

Spring Shall Plant. By Beatrice Harraden. (hodder And...

6d. net.)--Gives an account of a young girl of abundant vitality named Patuff a. It seems likely from the last chapter that this book is merely the first instalment of a le : T......

Poets And Poetry.

TWO VOLUMES OF VERSE. * Spring in New Hampshire' is extrinsically as well as intrinsic- ally interesting. It is, as the portrait frontispiece and Mr. Richards' preface tell us,......

The Gold Coast Regiment4 The Gold Coast Regiment Is...

in its historiographer. It is not every unit is the Army that can command the pen of so accomplished a man of letters and so able a chronicler of things done "to the southward......