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The Tragedy Of The . Pyramids. By Douglas Sladen. (hurst And

Blackett. 6s.)—The author explains in his preface how this book came to be written. He had read in a magazine the first two instalments of Mr. Hall Caine's "White Prophet," and......

Stradella. By F. Marion Crawford. (macmillan And Co. 6s.)...

criticism of the last work of Mr. Marion Crawford is perhaps out of place. It is sufficient to say that Stradella deals with the love story of a Venetian lady of the seventeenth......

Beadl.blz Novzas.—the Knight Of The Golden Sword. By...

(Chatto and Windus. 6s.)—A romance in which Claverhouse is the prominent figure.—Cricket Heron. By Irving Bacheller. (T. Fisher Unwin. 6s.)—A. very lifelike picture of how a New......

Bella Donna. By Robert Hichens. 2 Vols. (w. Heinemann. 4s.

net.)—Mr. Hichens lays the scene of his new novel partly in London and partly on the Nile. His heroine is a woman who, having led a notorious life in her youth, persuades Nigel......

Tu Es Petrus. By The Rev. E. D. Stone. (b.

H. Blackwell, Oxford. 6d.)—Mr. Stone argues that two passages in St. Matthew of which great use has been made in controversy, xvi. 17-19 and xviii. 17-18, are probably......

Some Books Of The Week.

[13-.4. this heading we notice such Books of As week as hens not been- reserved for review in other forms.] The Gospels as Historical Documents. By Vincent Henry Stanton, D.D.......

Novels.

GREAT POSSESSIONS.* Mits. WILFRID WARD has not always been happy in the choice of her titles. The remarkable ability of her first essay in fiction was obscured by a pedantic......