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The Credit Of The County. By W. E. Norris. (methuen

and Co 6s.)—Mr. Norris, contrary to his usual practice, has given us a motif in his new novel which distinctly borders upon bad morals. In the opening scene a husband, returning......

George And Son. By Edward H. Cooper. (john Long. 6s.)—

George and Son is as sordid a little tragedy as it is possible to con- ceive. The father and son are an abominable pair of adventurers, but they are so worsted by fate that it......

Paid Haver. By Jerome K. Jerome. (hutchinson And Co....

one will cry, after reading some fifty pages of Pau/ %elver, "Here is David Copperfield' over again." There is some- thing distinctly Micawberish about Paul's father ; the aunt......

Such As Have Erred. By Ella Macmahon. (hutchinson And Co.

6s.)—Miss MacMahon might well have finished the quota- tion in her title, for her unfortunate hero most distinctly is "deceived" in life. Luckily for him, the deception is......

Novels.

FROM A THATCHED COTTAGE. THE excellent qualities revealed by the author of Travels Bound Our Village emerge anew in what we believe to be her first serioas excursion into the......