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Fiction.

BREAKING COVER.t Mn. Mies announces on his title-page that he means to write• a happy, cheerful book for once. Cheerful the book certainly is, but towards the middle and end we......

Poets And Poetry.

SOMP, OBSERVATIONS ON THE CHARACTERISTICS OF MODERN POETRY.—V.—A POSTSCRIPT. A CORRESPONDENT has favoured us with some comments on the attempt that has been made in this column......

Readable Novels.—bal-wing. By Sax Rohmor. (cassell. 8s....

of the investigation of a mysterious crime, told with the author's invariable skill and dexterity in handling the complex machinery of his plot.—The Storm Man. By John 13.......