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Readable Novel13.—the Spirit Of Revolt. By Philip Gibbs....

Co. 6s.)—The hero of the story, if it can be called a story, is a Labour M.P. His principal achievement is to marry a chorus girl. But the book is very clever and pleasant.—......

• The Narrator In Mr. Lucas's New Novel Described Himself

as • watching the theatre of life from the stalls. In Mr. Lyons's volume—a collection of papers which have already appeared in the Clarion—the corresponding role is held by one......

Round-the-fire Stories. By A. Conan Doyle. (smith, Elder,...

6s.)—Sir Arthur Conan Doyle frankly announces in his preface that his stories are all concerned with the grotesque and the terrible, and therefore the reader must not be too......

Hill Rise. By W. B. Maxwell. (methuen And Co. 6s.)—mr.

Maxwell knows how to tell a story, and therefore the faults of his somewhat limited outlook may be forgiven him. There are one or two curious social solecisms in the book, as,......