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Readable Novels.—the Right Honourable Gentleman. By W. E....

and Co. 6s.)—This is written with Mr. Norris's much-appreciated ease and experience: it has a thoroughly up-to-date political setting.—The Record of a Silent Life. By Anna......

Some Books Of The Week.

[reler this heading ire ectics such Books of the week as IMMO sot been reserved for review in other forms.] Burma under British Rule. By Joseph Dautremer. Translated and with an......

Poor Dear Margaret Kirby. By Kathleen Norris. (macmillar...

6s.)—This is a series of short stories of American life, of which the first, which gives its name to the collection, is by no means the best. But all the stories are pleasant......

Concert Pilch. By Frank Denby. (hutchinson And Co. 6s.)—...

Danby " in this book gives an incisive picture of the Wagners, Sir Hubert and My Lady, recently "arrived" million- aires. Lady Wagner is Sir Hubert's second wife, and Sir......

Fiction.

NAPOLEON BOSWELL.• JADED novel-readers, oppressed by a surfeit of sex problems, wearied by the vagaries of smart week-enders, sick of "actuality" on the one hand and of......

"the Round Table" And The Marconi Question.

THE most interesting article in The Round Table for this quarter is entitled "Ministers and the Stock Exchange." It deals with remarkable justice, sobriety, and reticence with......