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Fiction.

• .1' at, LAST OF THE GRENVILLES.* 'WE owe " Bennet Copplestone " an apology for our delay in noticing the latest of the excellent books from his pen in which he acts as......

Readable Novels. —the Strange Case Of Mr. Jocelyn Thew. By

E. Phillips Oppenheim. (Hodder and Stoughton. 7s. net.)— Mr. Phillips Oppenheim's mysteries are not quite so interesting as usual, and the end of the story is anything but......

Arrows Of Desire. By J. S. Mackenzie. (allen And Unwin.

10s. 6d. net.)—The title, borrowed from Blake, and suggesting a romantic novel, is as misleading as Ruskin's " On the Construction of Sheepfolds." Professor Mackenzie's book......

The Romance Of The Battle Line In France. By J.

E. C. Bodley. (Constable. 7s. 8d. net.)—Mr. Bodley recalls in two attractive essays the historical associations, distant or recent, of the country through which the battle-front......

Mr. Francis Grierson's Abraham Lincoln (john Lane, 5s....

a short monograph intended to show the spiritual side of Lincoln's political and private career. The writer puts forward some curious statements. For example :- " Philosophical......

. The Remaking Of A Mind. By Henry De Man.

(Allen and Unwin. 7s. 6d. net.)—Lieutenant de Man before the war was a leader of the Belgian Socialist Party. In that capacity he accompanied the two German Socialists who went......

Some Books Of The Week.

Illetice in this CO11412181 does not necessarily preclude subsequent rovics.1 The League of Nations. By Sir Frederick Pollock. (Stevens. 10s.)—This is a valuable commentary on......