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The Autobiography Of A Poacher. Edited By Caractacus....

6s.)—This is really not a novel, but what its title declares, the autobiography of a man still living, who made poaching his " profession," until it was suggested to him to......

Novels.

TREGARTHEN'S WIFE.* IN Tregarth,en's Wife we find an agreeable work of fiction, compounded according to a prescription of which the late Sir Walter Besant was, if not the......

The Insane Root. By Mrs. Campbell Praed. (t. Fisher Unwin.

6s.)—Seeing that the accumulated sadness and ghastliness of these three novels find a fitting climax in Mrs. Praed's new story, we might paraphrase Fabian's remark, " More......

Borden. By Benjamin Swift. (methuen And Co. 6s.)—if Mr....

had intended to put the finishing touch to the dis• cussion on " Euthanasia " which has recently occupied the corre spondence columns of this journal, he could not have done......

Wistons. By Miles Amber. "the First Novel Library." (t....

Unwin. 6s.)—There is a French saying that people live sometimes d cite du bonheur. The author of Wistons certainly writes a c6tc:, du talent, and we feel assured by more than......