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Those Delightfil Americans. By Mrs. Everard Cotes (" Sara...

Duncan "). (Methuen and Co. 6s.)—The present writer owes many a delightful half-hour to "Sara Jeannette Duncan,"—for this untitled nom de plums is more familiar to readers than......

El Ont&i. By W. H. Hudson. (duckworth And Co. Is.

WI— Mr. Hudson's wonderful and picturesque stories of the Argentine pampas make an admirable second instalment of Messrs. Duck. worth's handy "Greenback Library" series. They......

A Book Of Stories. By G. S. Street. (a. Constable

and Co. 6s.)—Most of Mr. Street's stories skim pleasantly over the surface of life, he writes of ladies and gentlemen as "one who knows," and altogether his work may generally......

The Girl Irons St. Agneta's. By J. H. Yoxall, M.p.

(Ralph Holland and Co. 3s. 6d.)—The humour and sentiment of Mr. Yoxall's lively story of The Girl from St. Agneta's fluctuate between farce and comedy. On the whole, however,......

The Story Of A Mother. By Jane Findlater. (j. Nisbet

and Co. 6s.)—Helen Hoseason, the mother in Miss Findlater's novel, is a brilliant and attractive creature, singularly inappropriate, however, in the Scotch manse in which her......

Novels.

THE SHADOW OF THE ROPE.* Mn. HORNUNG. is one of that rare band of writers whose natural outlook on life is so genial and sympathetic that no matter how serious or sombre be......