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Islands, And Perhaps The Most Remarkable Thing About Them Is

that they are written by a woman. The stories, both in subject and in treatment, are extremely virile, and will certainly not remind any reader of the work of other women......

Novels.

COMPANIONS IN THE SIERRA.* This story is so loosely composed and so episodical that we ought perhaps to warn the reader that, although it is fiction, * Companions in the Sierra.......

Current Liter A.t U Re.

THE QUARTERLIES. The article on the Imperial Conference in the Edinburgh Review is a particularly brilliant contribution to a brilliant number. Nothing could be better than the......

A Reader Who Desires To Put Himself Into A Cheerful

mood should begin the Quarterly Review by studying the article on "British Investments Abroad." The figures for 1906 are £3,220,000,000, showing an increase on those of 1897 of......

Readable Novel8.—the Magic Plumes. By Mrs. Steuart...

Co. 6s.)---An interesting modern story, of which the scone is laid in Mexico.—Chance thb Changeling. By Maude C. Knight. (Greening and Co. 6s.)—A story in which the......