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The Pulse Of Life. By Mrs. Belloc-lowndes. (w. Heinemann....

Belloc-Lowndes has set herself a high standard in her earlier novels, and it can hardly be said that her present novel quite attains to her usual mark. A very slender thread......

Novels.

A LITTLE REVOLITTION.t Or late there has been a decided falling off in the production of those mock-Royal romances of which the original exemplar was R. L. Stevenson's Prince......

Some Books Of The Week.

[Under this heading we notice such Books of the week as has. not been reserved for review in other formal Frederic William Maitland. By A. L. Smith. (The Clarendon Press. 2s.......

The Negro Races. By Jerome Dowd. Vol. I. (macmillan And

Co. 10s. 6d. net.)—This volume is divided into two sections. In the first of these we have the " Negritos " (Pygmies, Bushmen, and Hottentots), in the second the " Nigritians "......

Readable Novels.—the Silver Zone. By Kathleen P. Emmett...

(John Murray. 6s.)—A curious story concerned with Indian native life. It impresses the reader with the author's insight into the minds of the natives.—Father Alphonsus. By H. A.......