READABLE NOVELS.—Daphne. By Margaret Sherwood. (Chatto and Windus. 3s. 6d.)—A
charming pastoral idyll of Italy, in which the gods appear in very human form to the heroine Love-in-a-Mist. By Madame Albanesi. (Hodder and Stoughton. 5s.)—A. love story in which the necessary temporary separation of the hero and heroine is not very convincingly managed.— Nepenthes. By Florence Hayllar. (W. Blackwood and Sons. 6s.)—A story in which an old manor house, a shipwreck, and a mysterious stranger are the chief factors in a series of romantic episodes.—Captain Vivanti's Pursuit. By G. S. Godkin. (Elliot Stock. 6s.)—A. tale of Anglo-Italian life, with a touch of the guide-book in it, but perhaps not the less readable for that.— The Election of Isabel. By Ronald Macdonald. (E. Arnold. 6s.) —A humorous story which will not please the enthusiastic friends of female suffrage.