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A Life's Retribution. By Angus Macdonald. (remington And...

her "first printed attempt at novel-writing" on the part of the author of A Life's Retribution, must be set down among those works of fiction which had better not be written. It......

Paul Jones's Alias. By David Christie Murray And Henry...

(Chatto and Windus.)—One and one do not make two in literature. Add Mr. Herman to Mr. D. C. Murray (whom we take to be one of the very best novelists of the day), and we do not......

Ifauntings. By " Vernon Lee." (w. Heinemann.)—" I Want To...

your flesh creep," was the expressed wish of a well-known character in fiction when he was about to unfold his tale. Possibly this is not the aspiration of "Vernon Lee" when she......