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READABLE NOVELS.—Love'8 Burden. By Margaret Peterson. (Hurst and Blackett. 68.)—The

scene of this book is laid in India. The heroine, whose own matrimonial adventure is disastrous, is unable to withstnnd the intrigues of a most unscrupulous and irre- sponsible young woman who marries the uncle for whom the heroine keeps house.—Inside the Lines. By Earl Derr Biggers and Robert Welles Ritchie. (Hodder and Stoughton. 3s. Ud.)—A novel founded on the play of the same name. There are several very striking situations which irresistibly recall the footlights. ,