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TALES FROM GREENERY STREET. By Denis Mackail. (Heinemann. 7s. 6d.)—We

willingly return to Greenery Street, and call at sever* houses of the newly wed, over- hearing their absurd and deleetabfe dialogues, considering their babies, their domestic comedies, their financial crises, their fleeting jealousies, their magnificent faith in the future and each other. Mr. Mackail is inclined to hover over them, and needlessly to explain their pretty simplicities ; but they are funny, innocent, and charming creatures, whom we leave as reluctantly as they quitted their little honeymoon dovecotes in the enchanted streets.