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READABLB NOVELS.—To the Minute. By Anna Katharine Green. (0. P.

Putnam's Sons. 3s. Cid.)—The story which gives its title to the book is an exciting account of a search for a hidden will ; the second is more commonplace.—Benoit Cast;zin. By Marcel Prevost. Trans- lated by Arthur C. Richmond. (lee'acmillas and Co. 2e. net.)—Another sample of fiction about the war seen from the French point of view. It deals with the situation on the frontier in August, 1914. The Forbidden Sacrifice. By Elizabeth York Miller. (Simpkin, Marshall, and Co. Ca.)—The story of a wife who adopts a moat questionable line of conduct in order to obtain the money for her husband's recovery from threatened tuberculosis.---The Picture Book. By Harold Begbie. (Mills and Boon. 6s.)—In spite of the heroine being a Duchess, this story is not concerned with social matters, and there is no reason why the lady, who is a benevolent philanthropist, should have attained that exalted rank. The hero is an unsuccessful artist.