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READABLB Novnrs.—Opal Fire. By Mrs. Campbell Praed. (Cassell and Co.

6s.)—A story of life in the Australian bush. It contains a very painful incident of a disaster to a child which is only too poignantly described.—Hearts and Coronets. By Alice Wilson Fox. (Macmillan and Co. 6s.)—A story of the British aristocracy, the members of which are represented in a most rosy and attractive light.