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Mrs. Pratt Of Paradise Farm. By Katharine Tynan. (smith,...

and Co. 6s.)—After all the dismal novels which have been published lately it is a relief to turn to the charming country story which " Katharine Tynan " calls Mrs. Pratt of......

Readable Novels.—the Temptation Of Tavernake. By Phillips...

Stoughton. 6s.)—A melodrama which may almost be called Anglo-American. There is one very thrilling moment in the book, but otherwise it is more ingenious than exciting.—London......

Fiction.

MICHAEL FERRYS.* LADY CLIFFORD is one of those writers—not a large class nowadays—who can always be counted upon for a graceful and genial presentation of modern life, and these......

King Rene Of Anjou.* There Is Surely No Period In

the world's history more full of fascination for us than that of the French Renascence. Coming, as it were, just before the full breaking of the wave of Italian culture, it......

An Unknown Lover. By Mrs. George De Home Vaizey. (mills

and Boon. 6s.)—The curious coincidence of the disaster of the- ' Titanic ' occuring just when the author of this book was engaged on her account of a shipwreck is noticed in a......