READABLB NOVELS.—The Conventionalists. By Robert Hugh Benson. (John Long. 6s.)—A
polemical tract, in the shape of fiction, in which the social sketches are very clever. But have, we not seen more than once the Colonial Bishop who thought he "could do more real good by pleading for his poor flock in England than by actually ministering to them "P—Our Daily Bread. By Clara Viebig. Translation by Margaret L. Clarke. (J. Lane. 6s.)—A story of the " mean streets " type. Streets can be just as mean in Berlin, it seems, as here.—The Witch's Sword. By D. K. Fulton. (Edward Arnold. 6s.)—A story, not very easy to follow, of adventures in Scotland and France, beginning with Flodden, which is described by a "Messenger," and ending with the marriage of James V.— Joyce Pleasantry, and other Stories. By George R. Sims. (Chatto and Windus. 6s.)
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