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Maya. By P. Laurence Oliphant. (a. Constable And Co. Os.)

- -The motto of this book, as well as tho name of the author, euggest to the mind of the reader another Laurence Oliphant whose work, in later life at any rate, had an oven more......

Oremus. By The Rev. J. R. Cohn. (parker And Co.,

Oxford. 38. net.)--Mr. Cohu has given us a very able book on a very difficult subject. It would be unfair to say that it is too philosophical ; for, indeed, the difficulty is......

Rhadablid Novels —the Broad Road. By Annie S. Swan....

Blackett. 6s.)—This is a cleverly contrived story, With a suspense well kept up to tho end and several characters drawn with more than average force.—The Lady and the Lackey. By......

Novels.

AN IMMORTAL SOUL.* THE modern novelist must be often tempted to re-echo the old saying, pereant qui ante nos nostra dixerunt. No matter how unfamiliar and apparently fresh his......

The Square Mile: A Story Of Ways And Means. By

Horace W. C. Newte. (Alston Rivers. 6s.)—This novel belongs to what may be called the modern photographic class of fiction. The hero is a bank clerk, and the book is concerned......

Some Books Of The Week.

[Under this heading los nofice such Books of the week as have not boon reserved for roview in other forms.] The Lincoln Centennial Medal. (G. P. Putnam's Sons. 25s. not.)—The......