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READABLE Novms.—The Remington Sentence. By W. Pett Ridge. (Methuen, 6s.)—Another

good example of Mr. Pett Ridge's clever characterization of young people and of his love of London.—The Watered Garden. By Maud Stepney Rawson. (S. Paul and Co. 6s.)—The first instalment of a romance which only appears p'ainly towards the end of this volume. The greater part of the book shows bow a paragon heroine makes a garden in particular and arranges a home in general for a socially pushing employer.—The Poison Belt, 13y A. Conan Doyle. (Hodder and Stoughton. 3s. 6d.)—The heroes of Sir A. C. Doyle's story, "The Lost World," retain .consciousness while the earth is plunged in catalepsy as the solar system passes through a mephitic belt of ether : short and illustrated.