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READABLE NOVELS.—Little Hearts. By Marjorie J. C. Piekthall. (Methuen and

Co. 6s.)—A romance of the eighteenth century. Miss Piathall writes well, with a pleasant fancy.—The Bronze Eagle. By Baroness Orczy. (Hodder and Stoughton. 6s.)—The hero was an Englishman, the heroine an ardent French Royalist, and the villain a Bonapartist. It all happened in 1815, makes a capital story, and would make a still better melodrama. — Michael 0' Halloran. By Gene Stratton-Porter. (John Murray. Cs.) —A. tale in the usual popular style of this. writer concerning Micky, Peaches, his sister by adoption, and other children, rich and poor, in an American city.—Something Fresh. By P. G. Wodehouse. (Methuen and Co. Gs.)—This farce, in spite of some conventionality, is spirited and certainly fresh.