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Novels.

MAJOR VIGOURE11%.* PARTICULARISM in fiction has its drawbacks as well as its advantages, and of the defects of its qualities we have had no lack of examples of recent years. But......

The Magazines.

THE Nineteenth Century is less topical than usual in its political articles, but is none the less readable on that account. The Duke of Argyll's article on "Fair Farms versus......

A Close Ring. By Miss Betham-edwards. (j. W. Arrowsmith And

Co., Bristol. 6s.)—Miss Betham-Edwards takes us over ground with which she has an unsurpassed familiarity. The " close ring" is a clan of Burgundian families, all related to......

Miss Mona. By Dorothy V. Horace Smith. (methuen And Co,

3s. 6d.)—This novel, if it can be called a novel, is not for all readers. It does not give dramatic situations, or even incidents, both things which may be reasonably demanded.......