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The Life Of The State. By Geraldine Hodgson. (ii. Marshall

and Son. 2s. 6d.)—The well-informed reader soon finds that Miss Hodgson knows what she is writing about, that her study of the subject has begun at the beginning and is......

Novels.

PRIORS ROOTHING.* AMID so much that is aggressive, strident, and inflammatory in modern fiction, it is a genuine pleasure to encounter in Mrs. Fuller Maitland a writer who has a......

A Passage Perilous. By Rosa Nouchette Carey. (macmillan...

6s.)—" Dramatic" is no word to apply to the writings of Miss Carey. However exciting are the circumstances in which her characters find themselves, they may always be relied......

The Peril Of The Sword. By Colonel Harcourt. (skeffington...

Son. 6s.)—Colonel Harcourt aims at great historical accuracy in his novels of the Mutiny, and if his books suffer a little from the artistic point of view, the events described......

Some Books Of The Week.

[Under this heading we notice such Books of the week as have not been reserved for review in other forma Dr. John Brown: a Biography and a Criticism. By the late John Taylor......

[*,* The Magazines.—owing To The Pressure On Our Space, We

are obliged to hold our notice of the Magazines over till next week.]......