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READABLB Novins.—The Long Engagement. By E. S. Stevens. (Mills and

Boon. 6s.)—A. country story of the doings of people of the upper middle class.—Thc Triumphs of Fabian Fichl: Criminologist. By Dick Donovan. (F. V. White and Co. 6s.)— A series of detective stories in which the police are always baffled while the amateur proceeds from triumph to triumph.—Those Other Days. By E. Phillips Oppenheim. (Ward, Lock and Co. 6s.)—A collection of short stories of which many have a mystic tendency. It is a pity that Mr. Phillips Oppenheim should occasionally descend to the artifice of telling a story which turns out to be nothing but a dream.