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Fiction.

THE PEDLAR'S PACK.t THE pedlar whose wares Mrs. Mann unpacks is a gloomy fellow, anything but an Autolyous. There were always streaks of seriousness and realism in her earlier......

Readable Hoyels.—the Tale Of Mr. Tubbs. By J. Hi Buekrose.

(Hodder and Stoughton. 65.)—Mr. J. E. Buokrose has abandoned his usual vein of delicate comedy for something nearly allied to farce, and the book is therefore not so dis-......

The Armed Neutralities Of 1780 And 1800. Edited By J.

B. Scott. (H. Milford. 21e. net.)—This volume, published for the Carnegie Endowment, ccertains the State papers relating to the armed neutralities of 1780 and 1800, together......

John Masefield.*

MASEFTELD'S latest volume is made up of a narrative poem and two one-act plays, all of which exhibit the qualities of swiftness of movement, picturesqueness of expression, and......

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[Notice in NU column does not necessarily preclude subsequent radar.] The Royal Regiment of Artillery at Le Coteau. By Major A. F. Becke. (Woolwich: Royal Artillery Institution.......