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The Ballet - 1)2liter, And On Guard. By Matilde Servo....

6a.)—These stories by Madame Serao are at once beautiful and terrible. The method of her art is to move and instruct, not by any obvious didacticism of manner or oon.- elusion,......

The Road To Frontenac. By Samuel Merwin. (john Murray....

is an exciting story of adventures among the Redskins of New France in 1687. It begins with the return to Quebec of the hero, Captain Menard, after several years of hardships......

Fancy Free. By Eden Phillpotts. (methuen And Co....

title Fancy Free, Mr. Philip t a gives us a collection of clever and amusing jeux d'esprit with a great variety (of motives. The idea of "Quite Out of the Common " is......

Great Lowlands. By Annie E. Holdsworth (mrs....

Stoughton. 6s.)—This is a rather squalid story. told in a powerful manner by one who knows how to treat her subject, no doubt from personal observation. The interest centres......

Novels.

SONS OF THE SWORD.* IT is matter for satisfaction as well as surprise to encounter a romance of war in which the scene is not laid in South Africa. Of such romances and stories......