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THE LILY FIELD. By Constance Rutherford. (Hodder - . and Stoughton. 7s.

Gd.)—A competent story of Henry V's campaigns in France. Its chief characters are a soldier and a little Parisian girl, and the crowded life of the time, as they see it, is vivid, exciting, and blessedly free from " romance.'