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Stories Of California. By Ella M. Sexton. (macmillan And Co.

4s. 6d. net.)—This book is not very happily named. It is in reality a gossiping history of California, and is primarily intended for children. The chapter headed " Before the......

Novels.

GODFREY MARTEN, SCHOOLBOY.* THE detached student of humanity whose judgment is un- deflected by patriotic bias cannot but be amused by the conflict of opinion which rages round......

C Urrent Literat U Re.

GIFT-BOOKS. We have not encountered a better collection of fairy-stories for many a year than the Zuni Folk-Tales, recorded and translated by F. H. Cushing (G. P. Putnam's Sons,......