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Reticence in Literature, and other Papers (J. G. Wilson, Se.

6d. net) is a volume of essays on literary subjects by Mr. Arthur Waugh. Besides the article which gives its title to the collection, we may mention one dealing with " Some Move- ments in Victorian Poetry" and another with "Fiction in the

Nineteenth Century." The book also contains a series' of "Sketches for Portraits" of various writers, including Richard Crashaw, Charles Kingsley, and George Geeing.