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READABLE NOVELS.—lather Iffettrnits. By Adolph llnusrath. (J. M. Dont and

Sons. 13s.)— father Matornus is a German monk who, like Lather, goes to Et no early in the sixteenth century and leaves it with much the stale impressions.—no Love That

Lasts. By Mabel Osgood Wright. (Macmillan and Co. Gs.)-- Character drawing (that of Pandora Curwen and her uncle Benjamin) and dialogue are excellent, but we should have liked a little more incident.—Five Galena of Gasoline. By Morris B. Wells. (D. Nutt. Os.)—An early romance of the motor.—For Kirk and King. By J. A. Macrae. (W. Blackwood and Son. Se. Gd.)—A story of the Commonwealth time told from the stands point of a Royalist Covenanter.