READABLE NovELB. — The Amazing Partnership. By E. Phillips Oppenheim, (Cassell and
Co, 3s. 6d.)—This story deals with a young man and a young woman who make an informal partnership in criminal investigation. Their adven- tared are sometimes exciting, but the author does not attempt to explain the change of attitude in the young lady from the extreme of businesslike formality to a sudden engagement to her parther.—Firemen Hot. By C. J. Cutctffe Hyne. (Methuen and Co. 6s.)—A collection of adventures under the name of Firemen Hot, of which the heroes are three sailors, a Scot, an Englishman, and a Yankee. In the detached sketches at the end of the book Captain Kettle reappears.-- James ll'hitaher's Dukedom. By Edgar Jepson. (Hutchinson and Co. 6s.)—An impossible but entertaining story of a furniture-broker who personates the dead Duke of Lanchester, whom he exactly resembles physically. The reader will imagine that his detection is inevitable when as Duke he signs a cheque "John Lanchester," but the circumstance passes unnoticed.
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