The Doings of Raffles Haw. By A. Conan Doyle. (Cassell
and Co.)—Raffies Haw is a millionaire, or billionaire, thanks to his
possession of a secret which furnishes him with an inexhaustible supply of money. He is anxious to make a good use of it, and accordingly employs it with a quite startling lavishne's. Un- happily, the old legend comes true again. The man who changes whatever he touches into gold does not add to the happiness of the human race. The story is decidedly well written.—The
History of a Failure, and other Tales. By E. Chilton. (Longmsns.) —The "failure" is a child of a philosophical parent, who, having
been born, bred, and educated according to the wisest rides,
ought to have been a success, but was not. However, he succeeded in this,—making his parents see that there are things in heaven and earth, especially in heaven, which are not dreamt of in their philosophy. There are five other stories in the volume, reprinted from various periodicals.—Australian Life. By Francis Adams.
(Chapman and Hall.)—Eight stories, under the heading of "Along the Coast," and six, with the common title of "Up the Country," most of them of a tragical tarn, make up this volume.
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