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RELDABLB Novar.s.—The Second Elopement. By Herbert Flower- dew. (Stanley Paul

and Co. 6s.)—This is the story of a Duke's daughter who escapes incog. from an unwelcome marriage. The young lady, and indeed all the characters, seem to hare a strangely high idea of the privileges of Dukw.—The Crooked Spur. By Richard Dawson. (Alston Rivers. 6s.)—This novel is mainly concerned with racing. The reader will find it difficult to credit the episode of the lost diamond at the end.

Cavanagh, Forest Ranger. By Hamlin Garland. (Harper and Brothers. 6s.)—A powerful story of life in the Far West.—A Princess of the Snows. By G. Frederic Turner. (Ward, Lock, and Co. 6s.)—A political romance, of which the scene is laid somewhere in that favoured region, the Balkan Peninsula.