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Recent Novels.*

THE dreariness of most modern dreary novels is gratuitous. Now and again, however, one encounters a book like S cider- znann's _Regina; or, The Sims of the Fathers, in which the......

Current Literature.

Paul Kruger. By F. Reginald Statham. (T. Fisher Unwin. Is. 6d.)—This is a mere piece of book-making, probably in- tended as a counterblast to the extravagant "Appreciation of......