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Readable Novels.—totty. By Bertram Smith. (harper And...

amusing collection of schoolboy stories. — The Dazzling Miss Davison. By Florence Warden. (T. Fisher Unwin. 6s.)—A story with a mystery which will be rather trans- parent to the......

The Country Gentleman's Estate Book. Edited And Compiled...

Broomhall. (24 St. James's Street. .B1 ls.)—The con- tents of this volume are legislation in 1907, variou s articles on agricultural subjects, fences, fowls, forestry, cab bits,......

We Have Received Shelburne Essays, By Paul Elm Or More,

Fifth Series (G. P. Putnam's Sons, 5s. net). These are reprinted from the Nation and Evening Post (New York), and in one instance (" Centenary of Longfellow ") from the......

The Liberationist. By Harold Bindloss. (ward, Lock, And...

13indloss's novel will be read chiefly for the interest of its pictures of West Africa. The story itself is a little con- fused and vague, but the reider is left with a vivid......

The Old Allegiance. By Hubert Wales. (john Long. Os.)— When

we reviewed this novel in October, 1899, with a dos appreciation of its undoubted merits, it was entitled "Purple and Fine Linen : a Tale of Two Centuries, by William Pigott,"......

Richard Bentley, Ed: A Bibliography. By A. T....

and Bowes. 7s. 6d. net.)—In this volume is accomplished an interesting task, which one is surprised, as Dr. Clark suggests, to find so long delayed. Dr. Clark sets forth its......

St. Thomas Of Canterbury. By Robert Hugh Benson. (mac-...

and Evans. 2s.)—This is a volume of the "St. Nicholas Series," edited by Dom Bede Camm, and appears with the • imprimatur of the Censorship. Father Benson tells the story of St.......

New Edition8.—in The "st. Martin's Illustrated Library Of...

(Chatto and Windus) we have the first in- stalment of a projected edition of "The Works of Jane Austen," to be completed in ten volumes (3s. 6d. net per vol.) Pride and......

Some Books Of The Week.

[Under this heading we notice such Books of the week as haze not been reserved for review in other forms.] Addresses to Earl Grey and Speeches in Reply. (S. E. Dawson,......