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THE GAME AND THE CANDLE. By Margaret Kennedy. (Heinemann. ls.)-This

is, a penetrating little .study of the meeting, after many years, of two sisters. _One, the beauty, had run away with a peevish scholar whose wife would not divorce him, and, after years of heroic penury, was about to join him in South Africa. The other has remained respectable and comfortable. The conversation is cleverly managed ; and the poverty-stricken erring sister before she sails astonishes the virtuous one by sending her an extravagance of roses be-cause her life has been unsatisfying. A moral fit for Browning!