READABLE NOVELS.— Chronicles of Service Life in Malta. By Mrs.
Arthur T. Stuart. (Edward Arnold. 6s.)—A series of lively short stories of which the title announces the subject.— Ships of Desire. By L. S. Gibson. (Chatto and Windus.
A modern story concerned with the possible consequences of engagements which are unduly protracted.—The Tramping Methodist. By Sheila Kayo-Smith. (George Bell and Sons. 6s.)—The story of the conversion of a clergyman's son in the early days of Methodism, and of his subsequent adventures in the role of a wandering preacher.—The London Plot. By Carlton Dawe. (Eveleigh Nash. 6s.)—A story of Nihilist plotting. A young Englishman joins one of the societies by way of a lark, and draws a lot which assigns to him the killing of a Grand Duke h-21 County Family. By J. Storer Clouston. (John , Murray. 2s. 6d. not.)—The Glastonbury family has come back to its own after an interval of alienation. What has it been doing meanwhile, and how does it come back ? Here are the questions to be answored.—The Hate of Man. By Headon Hill. (Cassell and Co. 6s.)—This is a story which never abates for a moment its breathless speed. What an onerous task is that of the editor of a great "daily" with the mission of exposing the machinations of a foreign Power!
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