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Messrs. Eyre And Spottiswoode Publish The Coronation...

A souvenir of the Coronation of their Majesties King George and Queen Mary." It contains the Coronation Service as it is arranged for the great occasion, Sir Frederick Bridge's......

Readable Novels. —uncanny Tales. By The Late F. Marion...

Fisher Unwin. 6s.)—It is only necessary to read the table of contents of this volume to be sure that the title is well bestowed. The first two stories are called "The Dead......

Novels.

NONSENSE NOVELS.* IN a humorous preface Professor Leacock, as we must now call him, tells us how reviewers of his previous work, Literary Lapses, "presumed, on inductive......

Love In .pernicketty Town. By S. E. Crockett. (hodder And

Stoughton. 6s.)—There are force and originality in Mr. Crockett's tale, but we must own that we do not much like it. A "mesmeric Evangelist,"—i.e., a man who works a revival to......

Some Books Of The Week.

['Under this heading we notice such Books of the week as have sot ben reserved for retries, in other form.] The New Garden of Canada. By F. A. Talbot. (Cassell and Co. 7s. 6d.......

We Have, Perhaps, Been Tempted To Lay Stress On The

under- lying sanity of these nonsense novels, but we can assure readers who delight in mere joyous desipience that they will find a rich harvest of laughter in the purely......

The Archbishops Of St. Andrews. By John Herkless And Robert

Kerr Hannay. Vol. M. (W. Blackwood and Sons. 7s. 6d. net.) —This third volume is wholly occupied with the biography of James Beaton. It is no disparagement to the labours of......