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The Grim Smile Of The Five Towns. By Arnold Bennett.

(Chap- man and Hall. 5s.)—Mr. Arnold Bennett is at his best in short stories of the "Five Towns," though it must be confessed that he very much oversteps the boundaries of good......

Some Books Of The Week.

[Under this heading we notice such Books of the week as have not been reserved for review in other forms.] Dublin. By Samuel A. Ossory Fitzpatrick. (Methuen and Co. 4s. 6d.......

Readable Novell—half A Bogue. By Harold Macgrath. (gay...

6s.)—An American story, made up of love and municipal politics, which seem to be more interesting there than they are here.—.A Mirror of Folly. By Harold Wintle. (Brown,......

Cur,rent Literature.

THE COMEDIES OF ARISTOPHANES. The Comedies of Aristophanes. Edited, Translated, and Explained by Benjamin Bickley Rogers. The Plutus. (G. Bell and Sons. 8s. 6d.)—It is quite......

Makers Of Canada.

Lord Dorchester. By A. G. Bradley. (T. C. and E. C. Jack. 21s. net.)—This volume belongs to the "Makers of Canada" Series, and it may safely be said that it is not surpassed by......

The Story Of Anna Reamer. By C. A. Dawson Scott.

(W. Heinemann. 6s.)—This is a powerful but sombre story of a woman who, deprived of love for the first thirty-five years of life, succumbs to an unworthy passion, and thereby......