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READABLE NOVELS.—Stella Maris. By W. J. Locke. (J. Lane. 6s.)—There

is not even a Provencal mistral to mitigate the strong sentiment and the crude melodrama which seem to smother the tender charm of an original theme.

Open Sesame. By B. P. Neuman. (J. Murray. 6s.)— The short chapters are very jerky, but give a delightful picture of a Bohemian family in London: there is a serious undercurrent—Virginia. By Ellen Glasgow. (W. Heine. mann. 6s.)—The story shows the Confederate States entering upon industrialism twenty years after the war, with a minute study of Southern women and a long-suffering heroine down to the present day.—Eliza's Son. By Barry Pain. (Cassell and Co. ls. net.)—His parents and their sorest trial described by himself.