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Thirteen Ways Home. By E. Nesbit. (anthony Treherne. Cs.)...

Ways Home is the sort of book that requires neither description nor criticism, only genial recommendation. The stories are all short, ingenious, romantic, wholesome, and full cf......

The New Americans. By Alfred Hodder. (macmillan And Co....

the space we are able to give to Mr. Alfred Hodder's most cunningly clever novel, The New Americans, it would be barely possible to give a catalogue raisonnd of the......

Novels.

CASHEL BYRON'S PROFESSION.* MR. BERNARD SHAW has adopted an original and thoroughly characteristic method of forestalling the treatment to which successful authors are often......

In Our Town. By Rosaline Masson. (hodder And Stoughton....

Our Town" is Edinburgh, and at first it seems as if its characteristics and peculiar charm were to hold the first place in the story. But as we read the human interest develops,......

Joscelyn Cheshire. By Sara Beaumont Kennedy. (gay And...

This story of the American War of Independence, telling of the spirit and charm of the Colonial dames, as well as of the bravery of the men, leads one to speculate whether the......

Within The Radius. By Albert Kinross. (duckworth And Co....

Kinross has forestalled the reviewer, and has himself called attention to the fact that his book is written in the manner of Stevenson's "New Arabian Nights." The wisdom of thus......

The Real World. By Robert Herrick. (macmillan And Co....

Real World is another elaborate study of American social life, with a more introspective bias and a slightly morbid tone of moralising. Jack Pemberton, the hero, seeks" reality"......

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THE ROYAL NAVY. The Royal Navy. Edited by W. Laird Clowes. Vol. VI. (S imp- son Low, Marston, and Co. 259. net.)—The peculiarity of this volume is that it begins and ends with......