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Readable Novels.—hugh Gordon. By Rosamond - Southey....

is strange now to read a novel of the Boer War, but Miss Southey's story is spirited and happy.--A Lady of Russia. By Robert Bow- man. (William Heinemann. 6s.)—The interest of......

Some Books Of The Week.

[Notice in this eau= does not necessarily preclude subsequent review.] The Dublin Review. (Burns and Oates. 55. 6d. net.)—The July issue of the Dublin Review contains a......

Sir Sidney Colvin Takes As The Text Of His Presidential

Address for the English Association a remark onto made to him by George Meredith : " Concentration and suggestion, Colvin, concentration and suggestion, those are the things I......

The Holiday Adventures Of Mr. P. J. Davenant. By Lord

Frederic Hamilton. (Eveleigh Nash. 2s. 6d. net.)—We have found it exceedingly difficult to determine to our satisfaction the relative proportions of fiction and fact in Lord......

Sergeant Michael Cassidy, R.d. By " Sapper." (hodder And...

is. net.)—Sergeant Michael Cassidy possesses the happy power of repartee, which reached its zenith in the days of the horse omnibus; but in his telling of stories, as in all......

Fiction.

SALUTE TO ADVENTURERS.* Mn. BUCHAN is a writer with many strings to his bow, ranging from such awe-inspiring subjects as the taxation of foreign income to eerie or crepuscular......