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The Affair At The Inn. By Kate Douglas Wiggle, Mary

Findlater, Jane Findlater, and Allan M'Aulay. (Gay and Bird. 36. 6d..)— The reader on studying the above imposing list of authors may perhaps conclude that The Affair at the Inn......

The Celestial Surgeon. By F. F. Montr&or. (edward Arnold....

Montresor gives us a good deal of very pleasant writing in the new novel which she calls, after Stevenson's poem, The Celestial Surgeon. Her character-drawing is like life, in.......

The Subject Of This Novel—the Conflict Of Roman And Goth

in the sixth century—will come as something of a surprise to those who regarded Mr. Gissing as the relentless delineator of the submerged middle class of to-day or yesterday.......

Be Increased If They Could Be Made To Understand The

standpoint of the layman. . The method in which this knowledge is forced upon the Reverend John Smith is described at length in the beginning of the story, and is too amusing to......

The Truants. By A. E. W. Mason. (smith, Elder, And

Co. 6s.)—Mr. Mason's new book confirms us in our opinion as to the real sphere for his talents. It is a story of a man who feels the romance of his marriage vanishing, and......

The Bridge Of Life. By Dorothea Gerard. (methuen And Co.

6s.)—Miss Gerard's new novel depends for its credibility on one. of those convenient poisons, fortunately more common in fiction than in life, which leave no possible trace in......