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SHEAVES FROM ,THE CORNHILL. By various Authors, (Murray. 7s. 6d.)—The

editor of the Cornhill is to be congratulated on this collection of reprinted stories : they are the finished products of craftsmen who are sure of their technique, and who have something definite to say. The excellence of the construction and the artistic execution of "Study in Marble," by F. Le Gros Clark, are especially evident. It is a pity that Mr. Claude E. Benson, who has written in ". Something to be Forgotten" one of the most exciting and terrifying adventure stories which this reviewer has read, does not mitigate the atnisophere of evil which he has created by a ray of—shall we say ?—the dazzling beauty of Sir Rider Haggard's She.