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Mr. Henry James is so acute a critic of his

fellow-craftsmen that many readers will be glad to possess, in a collected form, his Notes on Novelists (J.11. Dent and Sons, 7s. 6d. net). This volume includes two papers on Balzac, three on George Sand, and, others on Zola, Flaubert, D'Annunzo, Matilde Serao, Dumas fi/s, Stevenson, Browning, and various contemporary novelists. Mr. James's suggestive criticism is mostly worth extracting from his complex and cryptic phrases.