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The Fog. By William Dudley Pelley. (melrose. 7s. 6d.) The

Fog is a very long novel of American life, setting forth the troubles and adventures of Nathan Forge, the son of a cobbler in Paris, Vt., by occupation a tanner and by......

Beneath The Visiting Moon. By Mary And Jane Findlater....

and Blaekett. 7s. 6d. net.) Beneath the Visiting Moon. By Mary and Jane Findlater. (Hurst and Blaekett. 7s. 6d. net.) This book is really two novels in one, the first......

It Is Easy To Overpraise Spontaneity And Unexpectedness...

work of a foreign author ; the idiom of his thought is strange to us and (in the translation) the idiom of his language may be strange too. To his countrymen this idiom may seem......

This Little Collection Of Stories Is Eminently Suited For...

side or holiday reading. A hot afternoon should be chosen, and if possible the oscillations of a hammock should be used to produce a slight feeling of giddiness. This will tend......

Bayete ! Is A Book With A Much More Serious

intention. It, indeed, deals with the great colour problem both in America and South Africa. The hero is the legal successor to Loben- gula, and his election is the theme of the......

Two Novels On South Africa. * Two Very Different Books On

South Africa are Mary of Many Loves,' by Amy J. Baker, and Bayete ! " Hail to the King ! " 2 by G. Heaton Nicholls. The only link between these books is the charm of the veld,......