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READABLB NOVELS.—The Goal of Fortune. By E. E. Towgood. (Sidgwick

and Jackson. 6s.)—'A novel concerning modern lifo, of which the scene is laid partly in London and partly abroad. The catastrophe at the end of the book reveals to the heroine, who has made a conventional marriage, her real attachment to her hus- band.—The Letters of a Spinster, By Winifred James. (Chap- man and Hall. Os. net.)—This book announces its subject in its title. There is no plot, and the letters are just the correspondence of a spinster of thirty-five with a man friend. The letters from Corsica are the most amusing.