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Novels Of The Week.* There Ie No More Familiar Device

in romantic fiction than that of making the hero resemble a Royal personage, but this ancient motive is handled with no little vigour and ingenuity in The Black Terror. Mr.......

Current Literature.

The Edinburgh .Review for July is full of solid papers, the most interesting perhaps being those on " British Finance in the Nine- teenth Century," on "The Fall of the Western......

The Most Interesting Article In The New Quarterly I3 "

Modern Mysticism." The writer regards Madame Guyon, Maeterlinck, and Huysmann as all mystics in their several Mystieiam," he says, " may be called the twilight of , nascent , or......