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The Rector of Maliseet. By Leslie Reid. (J. M. Dent

and Sons. 7s. &I. net.)—The author himself is not certain enough of the central motive of his story for this book to be very convincing. The reader will not be sure, even at the end, whether or not the modern Rector of Maliseet is intended to be a reincarnation of the mediaeval Abbot Ambrose. The author, however, succeeds in producing a romantic atmosphere with the lonely village, the little hidden church with the candles perpetually burning on the altar, and the sinister legends of the forest close by.