13 MAY 1911, Page 26

READABLE NOVELS.—Tins Hands. By Richard Washburn Child. (Macmillan and Co.

6s.)—An American story told in the first person by the father of the heroine. Although the story is a good ono, the reader will have an uncomfortable feeling that it would have been impossible for the narrator to stay so long sitting on his verandah.—Declined With Thanks. By Una L. Silberrad. (Constable and Co. 6s.)—These are chiefly stories of witchcraft, which Miss Silberrad boldly publishes in spite of the fact that they have mostly been, as their title narrates, declined with thanks by the editors to whom she has sent them.