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Mans Stella. By M. C. Balfour. (john Lane.)—there Are Some

vivid portraits and touches of a Breton fisherman and the little bourgeois girl he marries, and the great contrast between the strong, savage Breton temperament of Laurence le......

Marion Harting's Awakening. By Edith M. Edwards. (s.s.u.)...

returns home, her education, which had been given her by an aunt, being finished. She is full of schemes for doing good, but is contemptuous of the duties close at hand. How she......

Ida From India. By Mrs. Herbert Martin. (griffith,...

and Co.)—The spoilt child from India who brings dis- comfort into a peaceable English home is a common experience in fiction, where the disagreeables of the situation are......

Broken Away. By B. E. Grimshaw. (john Lane.) — The...

this story are literary and professional, and we are introduced behind the scenes. We can appreciate the description of some of the literary man's troubles and vexations. The......

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Tea. By D. Crole. Illustrated. (Crosby Lockwood and Son.) —Mr. Crole's book treats the subject of tea and tea-planting com- prehensively and practically. The history of Indian......

A Venetian Love - Story. By B. L. Tottenham. (osgood,...

Co.)—Our author has most certainly caught something of the fiery passions of sunny Italy in delineating the gifted and emotional young painter, and a daughter of St. Mark. Paolo......

Sebastiani's Secret. By S. E. Waller. (chatto And...

secret is a certain power over women, which has been handed down for generations, but is known at the outside to but three people. It is mixed up with occultism and the ancient......

The Three Daughters Of Night. By Derek Vane. (hutchinson And

Co.)—John MacGregor is a fine study of a strong man ; we could all wish to have such a friend, whose character and whose refinement of feeling would make the trials of life......