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Readablb Novxns.—the Motor Maid. By C. N. And A. M.

Williamson. (Hodder and Stoughton. 6s.)—Mr. and Mrs. Williamson take their readers in this book on a motor trip to the South of France. Avignon and the antiquities in the......

Letters From George Eliot To Elena Stuart. Edited By Roland

Stuart. (Simpkin, Marshall, and Co. 5s. net.)—The editor of this volume explains the circumstances in which these letters came to be written. Mrs. Elms, Stuart found groat......

The Winning Lady, And Others. By Mary E. Wilkins Freeman.

(Harper and Brothers. 6s.)—These eleven stories are of a kind of which our Transatlantic cousins seem to have a monopoly. They are studies of life, quite ordinary life, which......

Leaves. By Violet Clarke. (w. Heinemann. 5s.)—sir George...

in a short introduction the tragic story of his daughter, the author of the sketches contained in this volume. There can be no doubt that they show great possibilities ; but......

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[Under this /wading los 'mgr.. sack Boas of the Acute as have not been Taunted for retries in ahoy forms.] A Critical Introduction to the New Testament. By A. S. Peake, D.D.......

The Story Of The Pine - Marten Mustela. By Arthur Bertram...

(D. Nutt. 2s. net.)—‘ Mustela' is a very interesting creature, and, we readily believe, drawn from life. Of her mate, Pekan,' we see but little,—ostendunt tent um fate neque......

Two Books Which Will Interest A Considerable Class Of...

are The Old Catholic Missal and Ritual, Prepared by the. Right Rev. Arnold H. Matthew, D.D. (Cope and Fenwick, Gs. net)—so far as an outsider can judge, there is very little......

Novels.

ROBERT EMMET,* OF recent years we have often protested against the practice of writers of historical romance who alternate documentary evidence with imaginary episodes for which......

Eighteenth Century Literature : An Orford Miscellany....

4s. net.)—This volume contains eight studies, the first dealing with Sir Richard Steele, the last with William Lisle Bowles. It may be said that their final cause is to tell the......