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READABLE Norms.—Something Afar. By Maxwell Gray. (Edward Arnold. 6s.)—A story

of which the scene is laid first in London and then abroad. The character of Arnold Leith is well realized, but the golf between Parts I. and II. of the book is too deep.—November .Joe, By Hesketh Prichard. (Hodder and Stoughton. 6s.)—A story of a tracker detective who lives in the mountains and borders of Canada, and whose work might be owned by the great detectives of fiction with pride and satisfaction.—The Gondola. By Rothay Reynolds. (Mills and Boon. 6s.)—A slight but cheerful little story of a young Englishman in Venice. Though the canons of proba- bility are violated in the action of the three Italian ladies at a masquerade, the results were extrmely agreeable to the hero.