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Great Short Stories Of All Nations. Selected By Maxim Lieber

and Blanche Colton Williams. (Harrap. 8s. 6d.)—This book is explained by its secondary title, " one hundred and fifty-eight complete short stories from all periods and......

The White Villa At Dinard. By Gerard Shelley. (gay And

Hancock. 7s. 6d.)—The best things in this book, to the reader weary of the rigours of the English winter, are the descriptions of the sunshine and gay life at Dinard. It must be......

Fine Portrait Medals

A VOLUME of photographs of medals which is introduced by Mr: G. F. Hill, the learned Keeper of Coins and Medals at the British Museum and the leading authority on the great......

Fiction

Four First Novels THERE is promise in each of these four novels by beginners ; but the first two come nearest to positive achievement. Most original of all, and yet the least......