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Joan Of The Hills. By T. B. Clegg. (john Lane.

6s.)—The plot is of an ordinary kind,—a marriage made in haste and repented of at leisure. And the hero is not heroic; courage and, we may say, honour fail him when the need is......

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THE SCORE.t IN the two long stories in "Lucas Idalet's " new book there is only one thought in common so far as we can discover, and that is the perverted idea that "all men......

A History Of The Church Of England.* To Write The

history of some thirteen hundred years in about a third of that number of pages is a very difficult task ; to write it so as to satisfy all ideas of proportionate importance and......