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Novels.

'ilia BROAD HIGHWAY.* Mn. JEFFERY FARNOL, whose name is new to us, the title. page of his novel containing no record of previous works, deserves a cordial welcome as a writer......

Some Books Of The Week.

• [Under this heading ws notice such Books of the week as have net isn► reserved for review in other forms.] A Short History of the Church of England. By the Rev. J. F. Kendall.......

Readable Novels.—the Mulberries Of Daphne. By Kate Horn....

and Co. 6s.)—A freshly written little book con- cerning* a young woman who runs away from Mayfair to try the simple life, with astonishingly good results.—Fedora of the Halls.......

Phillida. By Thomas Cobb. (mills And Boon. 6s.)—the Most...

character in Mr. Cobb's new novel is that of Stephen Maurice. Though he does not occupy any official position in the list of characters, he has an extraordinary faculty for......

None Other Gods. By Robert Hugh Benson. (hutchinson And Co.

6s.) — Father Benson does not contrive to be entirely articulate in his new noveL He leaves so much to the reader's imagination that the book itself is only a very bare outline,......

The Wild Olive. By The Author Of "the Inner Shrine."

(Methuen and Co. 6s.)—This novel begins in an admirable fashion with the escape of a young man wrongfully condemned to death for murder, and his subsequent rescue by a girl. The......