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The White Thread. By Robert Halifax. (methuen And Co....

the heroine of this book, is a general servant, and it must be confessed that her character is a little too good to • be true. It is impossible to find a single fault with her,......

My Lady Of The Chimney Corner. By Alexander Irvine....

Nash. 3s. 6d. net.)—We cannot but regret that Mr. Irvine has, so to speak, fallen between three stools : his last book certainly cannot be classed as a biography, for it does......

The Grey Cat. By B. Harris-burland. (chapman And Hall....

is impossible in recommending or condemning a detective story to feel any certainty of general approval ; for no two patrons of this class of literature like their dish with the......

Fiction.

THE VISION SPLENDID.* THE clever authors of Chantemerle have again laid the novel- reading public under obligation by an excellent historical romance in which they adhere to......

The Magazines.

LORD DUNRAVEN contributes a "Last Plea for Federation " to the .Nineteenth. Century. He argues that while it cannot be seriously disputed that the Government obtained approval......