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READABLE NOVELS.—Peggy Stewart. By Gabrielle E. Jackson. (Macmillan and Co.

6s.)—A very pretty picture of life on a Virginian plantation.—The Belle of Santiago. By G. B. Burgin. (Hutchinson and Co. 6s.)—A dramatic, even melodramatic, tale, turning on the difference between Spanish and British ways of thinking. Can the first scene be rightly dated "in the late summer of 18—" ?