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READABLE Novnts.—The Queen's Peril. By Mrs. Hugh Fraser and H.

Fraser. (Hutchinson and Co. 6s.)—This describes four breathless days and nights at the Court of Louis XIII. and Anne of Austria, during which the Queen is abducted and rescued.—Stories without Tears. By Barry Pain. (Mills and Boon. 6s.)—Twenty-five tales and twenty shorter " moral stories " in the "fable" manner, told in Mr. Pain's whimsical style. —The Bider of Waroona. By G. Firth Scott. (John Long. 6s.)—An Australian detective story.—The Voice of Bethia. By Thomas Cobb. (Mills and Boon. 6s.)—A pleasant novel of the mild type.