READABLE NOVELS.—A Queen's Error. By Captain Henry Curtiss. (E. V.
White and Co. 6s.)—Mr. Anstruther befriends an old lady in Bath and so gets mixed up with the affairs of the kingdom of A quazilia. The story is brisk—and who cares about probability 2—Just to Get Married. By Cicely Hamilton. (Chapman and Hall. 6s.)— An enlargement of the familiar maxim that it is well to begin with a little aversion.—Mac's Adventures. By Jane Barlow. (Hutchin- son and Co. 6s.)—Some vigorous sketches of Irish life which have a serious central figure in the up-to-date child Mac Valentine Barry.—The Two Faces. By Marie Van Vorst. (Mills and Boon. 6s.)—Certainly a good story to read. There is always action, and the suggestion of great truths ; but could it not have been made a little less perplexing? —The Brand of Silence. By Fred M. White. (Ward, Lock and Co. 6s.)—A well-constructed tale of the sensational kind.—The Camera Fiend. By E. W. Hornung. (T. Fisher lJnwin. 6a.)—If a man has an idea that he can photograph a departing spirit and desires subjects for his camera, he is likely to be dangerous.—At a Venture. By H. B. Marriott Watson. (Methuen and Co. 6s.) —A collection of fifteen short stories. We should put the historical first and the humorous second.—The Bourgeois Queen of Paris. By Janet M. Clark. (Greening and Co. 64.)—A picturesque story of Paris and the struggle between Catholics and Huguenots in the days of Henry H.
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