RIZADA.BLEI NOVELS.-A Wilderness Winner. By Edith A. Barnett. (Methuen and
Co. 6s.)—A realistic and not very pleasing picture of woman's life in the American West.—Delilah of the Snows. By Harold Bindloss. (John Long. 6s.)—Another Canadian tale ; the scene is in the mining regions, and the story is complicated by the doings of a "Lady Clara Vere de Vere."—Mr. Poskitt. By J. S. Fletcher. (Eveleigh Nash. 69.)—Sketches of rural life, pleasant but somewhat conventional.—The Monk's Treasure. By George Horton. (Ward, Lock, and Co. 6s.)—A tale of an island in the Greek Archipelago, with very romantic iucidents and a real-looking background.—The Strange Story of Falconer Thring. By Constantine Ralli. (Hurst and Blackett. 6s.)—A rather dis- agreeable, though powerful, story of murder and intrigue, ending with a graphic description of the battle of Isandhlwana.-,—The Secret Syndicate. By Fred Whishaw. (John Long. 6s.)—A Russian story which, as is usual with Mr. Whishaw's work on this subject, bears on its face clear evidence of the author's intimate acquaintance with his subject.