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The Dragon Painter. By Sidney Mccall. (stanley Paul And Co.

6s.)—This is a story of modern Japan which is tuned to a key foreign to Western ears. There is a great deal of wild romance about it, but the mystery of ITme-ko's disappearance......

The Elements Of Negro Religion. By W. J. Edmonston Scott.

(Edmonstou Scott and Co, Edinburgh. 6s. net.)—The word "negro " has here a meaning which is somewhat unexpected. About 4000 B.C., we are told, the Indo-Bantu race lived in......

Some Books Of The Week.

[Under this heading me notice such Books of tha was is haw soi hese rsserved for review lat other forms.] The Inspiration of Prophecy. By G. C. Joyce, D.D. (H. Frowde. 3s. 6d.......

Rladable Novb1.8.—the Glen. By Mary Stuart Boyd. (mills...

6s.)—This is a story of a most unsophisticated and ingenuous Highland maiden. The descriptions of scenery are well done.—When _Love Knocks. By Gilbert Stanhope. (Same......

The Hermon. By Algernon Glaring. (f. V. White And Co.

6s.)—Mr. Gissing's new novel is chiefly concerned with the study of a young man, John Pitloh, who after a youth spent in London returns as a herdsman to the Border country......

Novels.

PRESTER JOHN.* Yotrwa David Crawfurd, the narrator and hero of Mr. Buchtes vehemently exciting South African romance, is a son of the manse who abandons theology for commerce......

We Have Received The Annual Report Of The British And

Foreign Bible Society. (146 Queen Victoria Street, E.C. La) We have no wish to depreciate the work of the Society, carried out, as it is, with admirable activity. The sale is......

Across Yunnan. By Archibald Little. Edited By Mrs. Archi-...

Little. (Sampson Low & Co., 3s. 6d. net.)—This volume con- tains a series of letters written to the North China Herald in the late spring and summer of 1906. It was the last of......