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The Revelations Of Inspector Morgan. By Oswald Crawford....

Hall. 6s.)—Mr. Crawfurd has reinstated the pro- fessional as opposed to the amateur detective, but it must be awned that to the reader of detective stories, though the plots......

Books About Rome.

What a fascination there is in reading a guide-book to Rome for any one who has ever lived in the Eternal City ! It matters . - not what kind of a guide-book it be,--a......

Current Lite Rat Ure.

HISTORICAL GREEK COINS. Historical Greek Coins. By G. F. Hill, M.A. (A. Constable and Co. 10s. 6d. net.)—Mr. Hill makes some instructive remarks on the historical value of......

Parson Brand. By L. Cope Cornford. (e. Grant Richards....

these short stories, the first, "Parson Brand," is the best The story of Parson Brand can hardly perhaps be called a short - story, as it occupies nearly half the volume, and......

Novels.

THE SAINT.* THE growth of the theological or religious romance is only part of that octopus-like advanceof fictionwhich threatens every de- partment of letters with impartial......

The Lost Earl Of Man. By Mrs. Campbell Praed. (chatto-

and Windus. 6s.)—This' is primarily a story of the Australian_ bush, though a very exciting shipwreck, in which the hero- and heroine are rescued, occurs in the middle of it.......

All That Was Possible. By Howard 0. Sturgis. (a. Constable

and Co. 6s.)—" Of the fashionable but essentially repellent class of books to which it belongs All that was Possible is one of the least objectionable that we have seen." These......