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Novels.

RING IN THE NEW.* THE novels of Mr. Richard Whiteing might serve as an excellent text for an essay on the evolution of social satire in modern fiction'. Most of those who......

The High Toby. By H. B. Marriott Watson. (methuen And

Co. 6s.)—The creator of Dick Ryder, otherwise "Galloping Dick," has put the world in his debt by giving it a further series of his hero's adventures. The highwayman of real life......

Mast And Sail In Europe And Asia.

Mast and Sail in Europe and Asia. By H. Warington Smyth. (John Murray. 21s. net.)—This is a book in the presence of which the "armchair" critic feels peculiarly helpless. What......

The Wheel Of Life. By Ellen Glasgow. (a. Constable And

Co. 6s.)—It cannot be said that Miss Glasgow's accounts of society in New York give her readers a very pleasant impression of the social conditions of that city. A society which......

C Urrent Lite Rat Ure.

JOHN WESLEY. The Life of John Wesley. By C. T. Winchester. (Macmillan and Co. 6s. 6d. net.)—Mr. Winchester, who professes English Litera- ture in the Wesleyan University in the......