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The Other Sen. By Ella Macmahon. (chapman And Hall. 68.)

—Miss Macmahon is always at her best when depicting the quiet everyday life of upper-class cosmopolitan English society, and for this reason her present story does not display......

In The Closed Room. By Frances Hodgson Burnett. Illustra-...

by Jessie Wilcox Smith. (Hodder and Stoughton. 3s. 6d.) —Judged by its illustrations alone, Mrs. Hodgson Burnett's graceful story, In the Closed Room, would be classed with......

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The Merry Multifteet And The Mounting Multieorps. Created...

Johnson, Mast and Block Maker (retired). Put into Writing by Thomas O'Cluny. Illustrated by W. Heath Robinson. (J. M. Dent and Co. 2s. 6d)—An amusing jeu d'esprit not innocent......

The Cinematograph Train, And Other Stories. By G. E. Farrow.

With Illustrations by Alan Wright. (R. Brimley Johnson. 5s.) —Mr. Farrow drops his" Wallypug" vein this Christmas, and takes his readers on a trip to Fairyland in a......

The Abbess Of Trlaye. By Stanley Weyman. (longmans And Co.

Cs.)—There is no lack either of romantic atmosphere or exciting adventure in Mr. Stanley Weyman's new novel. Artistically speaking, the first few chapters are the best part of......

The Sea-wolf. By Jack London. (w. Heinemann. 6s.)—whether...

like that of Wolf Larsen is really possible may be doubtful, but it is certain that Mr. Jack London makes his readers for the time believe in it. The totally unmoral sea captain......

The Invisible Playmate, And W. V. Her Book. By William

Canton. With 2 Illustrations by C. E. Brock. (Hodder and Stoughton. 3s. 6d.)—Somewhat similar in motive is the title-story of the collection of studies of child-life of which we......

Two Queenslanders And Their Friends. By Frances Campbell....

65.)—It is a very real pleasure to see once again the two delightful little Australians, Joe and Mimi, whose acquaintance most people have already made in the Westminster......