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The Court Of Conscience. By Ella Macmahon. (chapman And...

6s.)—It is difficult to excuse the conduct of the hero of this book towards the heroine, even on the plea advanced by one of the characters that he is a politician. Having a......

Some Books Of The Week.

[IIeuter this heading we notice such Books of the week as have not been moved for review in other forms.] The Black Bishop, Samuel Adjai Crowther. By Jesse Page. (Hodder and......

Interplay. By Beatrice Harreden. (methuen And Co. Os.)—...

wonders what is to be the limit in regard to the physically horrible in fiction. What is to be thought of a novel in which the heroine is made to die of cancer of the liver,—not......

Bunyan Himself As Seen In " Grace Abounding." By Alexander

- Whyte, D.D. (Oliphant, Anderson, and Ferrier. 2s. 6d.)—This volume is the fourth series of "Bunyan Characters." That Dr. Whyte can write very effectively we all know, nor do......

Readable Novms. — The Happy Medium, And Other Stories. By...

(Eveleigh Nash. 6s.)—Some of the stories are unconvincing ; one or two needlessly painful; but the reader will find good things.—Leonore Stubbs. By L. B. Walford. (Longmans and......

The Naturalisation Of The Supernatural. By Frank Podmore....

Putnam's Sons. 7s. 6d. net.)—Mr. Podmore is so sincere and so level-headed an investigator of psychical phenomena that the appearance of a book from his pen dealing with such......