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The Fly In The Ointment. By Frances Hammond. (chapman And

Hall. (is.)—A careful study of is girl who with every worldly advantage is cut off from a woman's natural life by a slight deformity. What, however, strikes the reader as a much......

When God Laughs, And Other Stories. By Jack London. (mills

and Boon. 6s.)--Mr. Jack London's new volume contains a collection of short stories to which the epithet "strong" may fitly be applied. In fact, it would hardly be too much to......

Fiction.

THE LAST RESORT.* Mn. PREVOST BATTERSBY has given us an interesting if not altogether conclusive romance on the ethics of patriotism based on the recent history of Somaliland......

Mr. Novibow On War.f

Mn. NOVIHOW has taken unnecessary pains to show that war bringsno advantage to the countries which are foolish enough to wage it. He is evidently convinced that if he can but......