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Letters From John China.man.

Letters from John Chinaman. (R. Brimley Johnson. is.)— These letters purport to be written by a native of China who has lived long in the West. They contain a favourable sketch......

The Yellow Fiend. By Mrs. Alexander. (t. Fisher Unwin....

is a very grim and uncomfortable book. The "Yellow Fiend" is the gold that warps more than one character in the story. The miser is well done, and there is originality in the......

The Story Of Teresa. By Anne Macdonell. (methuen And Co.

Cs.)—Mies Dfacdonell would have been more successful had her story been less lengthy. It requires enormous talent to write a book as long as The Story of Teresa without its......

The Old Bank. By William Westall. (chatto And Windus....

Old Bank is a spirited story of provincial life, in which an extraordinary number of unusual things happen. The girl in whom the plot centres is the adopted daughter of a widow,......

Current Literature.

THE MYSTIC ROSE: A. STUDY OF PRIMITIVE MARRIAGE. The Mystic Bose v a Study of Primitive Marriage. By Errest Crawley, MA. (Macmillan and Co. 12s. net.)—This is not a book which......

The Opportunist. By G. E. Mitten. (a. And C. Black.

6s.)— A political romance is always opened with a pleasant little stir of excitement by London readers. For by some extraordinary twist of the human mind, people like to read......

Women In Love. By Alfred Satre. (george Allen. 6s.)—mr....

little book of studies may be stigmatised as neither fish, flesh, fowl, nor good red herring. The sketches are dialogues with lengthy stage directions, but they are hardly......