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Novels.

RODDLES.t UNEQUAL in execution and hampered by a plot which involves gaps of two, three, and ton years in the narra- tive, Roddles is none the less a remarkable and stimu-......

The Frontier, By Maurice Leblanc. Translated By Alexander...

Mattes. (Mills and Boon. (i3.)—It must first be said that Mr. de Mattes's translation of M. 'Maurice Leblanc's new novel is extremely good. The book almost everywhere reads as......

Havoc. By E. Phillips Oppenheim. (hodder And Stoughton....

a most exciting story of a secret treaty of which the various nations struggle to obtain possession. Tho police of this country and the secret agents of other countries seem to......

Readable Nover.s.—honesty. By M. E. Francis. (hodder And...

charming little book of which the hero is a travelling pedlar who lives in a caravan with the heroine, his wife. The cause of the misunderstanding between them seems rather......