READABLE Novnis.—The Fatal Ruby. By Charles Garvice. (Hodder and Stoughton.
6s.)—A modern melodrama of which the subject is announced in the title. It is very completely carried out, and even includes a comic servant.—Germaine. By H. C. Rowland. (John Lane. 6s.)—The story of an author whose books would certainly have been put on the " Index " under the new rule which is to govern the circulating libraries. Germaine, the heroine, is his ward.—His Private Life. By H. Smith. Second Edition. (William Rider and Son. 3s. 6d. net.)—This is an account of an eminent statesman's private life, which he does not manage as well as his public affairs. What may be called the society parts of the book are well written and true to type.—The Cheat. By Lady Troubridge. (Mills and Boon. 6s.)—Very high life is described in this novel, of which the hero is a Duke. It may be permissible to ask how a man who was born in the year 1876 could possibly possess a portrait of his mother painted by Romney.—Simeon Tetiow's Shadow. By Jeannette Lee. (Hodder and Stoughton. 6s.)—Simeon Tetlow controls an American railway or group of railways ; the " shadow" is a dull- looking young man who rescues him from imminent perils. It is a good story, but to an outsider not easy to understand.—The Old Bureaucrat. By Sinclair Ayden. (Digby, Long, and Co. 6s.) —This " St. Petersburg Story " is distinctly good of its kind. It deals with the present unrest of Russian affairs.—The Blue Highway. By Stacey Blake. (Sampson Low, Marston, and Co. 6s.)—A story of the sea, with at least one quite original situation.
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