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READABLE NOVELS.—The Prince and Betty. By P. G. Wodehouse. (Mills

and Boon. 6s.)—A lively little sketch concerned chiefly with an American millionaire who wishes to start a rival to Monte Carlo in an island in the Mediterranean.—Kingfisher Blue : a Wayfaring Story. By Halliwell Sutcliffe. (Smith, Elder and Co. 6s.)—The matter of this novel is interesting, but the hero author, has a most irritating habit of apostrophizing, not only his reader, but the various characters of the plot, which considerably lessens the attractiveness of his story.