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New Guinea And Australasian Defence.* Both Of These Books...

interesting and valuable ; both are incomplete, and therefore unsatisfactory, though in different ways and for different reasons. Death has brought the emiuently promising......

Recent Novels" Miss Fairfax Emirs Is A Writer Who Has

taught us to expect mach from her, and whom we instinctively and fairly judge by an exceptionally high standard. We will not say that in the present novel she falls......