READABLE NOVELS.—All the World Wondered. By Leonard Merrick. (Methuen and
Co. 6s.)—A collection of theatrical stories, of which the first, which gives the book its title, is by far the best.—The Shadow on the Purple. By a Peeress. (Lynwood and Co. 6s.)—These short stories purport to be written by an English diplomat. They are excellent reading for people who like the heroes of their fiction to be kings, queens, princes and princesses ; all the minor characters are "born" in the German sense of the word.—The Fair House. By Hugh de Selincourt. (John Lane. 6s.)—The story of the bringing up of a little child by her widowed father. Though he neglects several important parts of her training, she avoids the great danger set before her in adolescence, and in the end makes a happy marriage.—Zoi the Dancer. By Ida Wild. (John Lane., 6s.)—A. story of Brussels, portions of which will invite inevitable comparisons with a well-
known classic. The rest of the story, however,is on different lines. and is concerned with the adventures of a young lady who takes to dancing as a means of earning her bread.
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