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Fiction.

MIKE.* Ma. E. F. BENSON has created one or two characters to whom he is so much attached that he is apt to include them under a different alias in successive novels. All readers......

The Empress Euginie And Her Son. By Edward Le Gg E. (grant

Richards. 12s. 6d. net.)—Mr. Le gg e's third volume on the Empress Eug6nie is even loss coherent than the others, and may be described as a collection of odds and ends having......

Wharton's Law Lexicon. Twelfth Edition. By E. A....

42s.)—This familiar and useful reference-book has been carefully revised for the twelfth edition, and the entries dealin g with the Parliament Act, National Insurance, Ancient......

Readable Novels.—the Golden Arrow. By Mary Webb. (con-...

Co. 6s.)—A Staffordshire story showin g that dwellers in the country did not escape dramatic emotions even before the war. Julius LeVallon : an Episode. By Al g ernon Blackwood.......

The Greater Tragedy. By Benjamin Apthorp Gould. (a. P. Put-

nam's Sons. $1 net.)—Mr. Gould, an American livin g in Canada, is an enthusiast in the cause of the Allies, and maintains that on both moral and material g rounds his country......

Closely Printed Pa G Es. In The Latest Reprint Mrs. J. R.

Green has added an epilo g ue of one hundred and seventy-two pa g es covering the century from 1815 to 1914. A spirited sketch of the social changes and of the Imperial and......

Select Prose Of Robert Southey. Edited By Jacob Zeitlin....

and Co. 6s. 6d. net.)—Southey's prose works are so voluminous and so une q ual that few people read them. Yet Southey at his beet is an entertainin g author, and Mr. Zeitlin's......

Some Books Of The Week.

votice in this column does not necessarily preclude subsequent review.] The Eye-Witness. By H. Belloc. (T. Nelson and Sons. Is. net.)— We welcome this cheap reissue of Mr.......

Some American Opinions On The Indian Empire. (t. Fisher...

2d.)—" The successful administration of the Indian Empire by the En g lish has been one of the most notable and the most admirable achieve. meats of the white race durin g the......