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Readable Novels.—subsoil. By O. Marriott. (hurst And...

deal of clever word.spinning which probes arts, crafts, and temperaments. The plot is exasperating, but the characters do carry interest as well as the subjects.—Gold Lace. By......

Winds Of God. By Hamilton Drummond. (stanley Paul And Co.

6s.)—Mr. Hamilton Drummond imparts a novelty into his story of treasure-hunting by assigning the principal character to a woman. Otherwise, although the book is well......

Fiction.

THE MEASURE OF OUR THOUGHTS.' IF we are to follow the method of Robinson Crusoe, so happily revived in The Wrong Boa, of summing up a situation by a parallel statement of profit......

The Valley Of The Moon. By Jack London. (mills And

Boon. 6s.)—Mr. London's book is a classic, if we may be forgiven the use of so dignified a word, in American slang. Here is language, at first incomprehensible, afterwards......

Weeds. By Olave M. Potter And Douglas Sladen. (hurst And

Blackett 6'0—The moral of Miss Potter's and Mr. Sladen's book is the importance of technical or business train- ing for all women who will have to earn their own livelihood. It......