29 MARCH 1902, page 22

Tyranny Of The Official Prison-keepers More Than He Can...

With two convict companions, therefore, he retires to a sylvan retreat discovered by accident on an island surrounded by a horrible swamp, and there he becomes the Claude Duval......

Nora Lester. By Anna Howarth. (smith, Elder, And Co. 6s.)

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The Decoy. By Francis Dana. (john Lane. 6s.)—tif The Decoy

the novel reviewer will have the rare pleasure of reading a book from cover to cover, not because he must, but because he enjoys it. Even if, as is the case with the present......

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LOST PROPERTY.* Ma. PET'r RIDGE has, amongst other engaging qualities, a most agreeable way of falsifying the expectations of his critics. For a long time he confined himself to......