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Richard Gordon. By Alexander Black. (lothrop Publishing...

there are things in this novel which may offend the reader's taste, the book is on the whole interesting, and has not the fault of extreme thinness which is apt to be......

Outlaws. By Clarke Little. (ward, Lock, And Co. 3s. 6d.)—

A Fair Freebooter. By Basil Marnan. (Cassell and Co. 8s.)— We put these two novels together because they are curiously alike in temper and subject. They are conspicuous examples......

Unofficial. By The Hon. Mrs. Walter R. D. Forbes. (a.

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Novels.

THE EARTH AND THE FULLNESS THEREOF.* ACCEPTANCE of the mainspring of the plot of The Earth and the Fullness Thereof involves no undue effort of imagination on the part of the......

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