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The Black Cat. By Louis Tracy. (iiodder And Stoughton. 7s.

6d. net.)—An admirable melodrama in which the cat Georgette plays an important role. It is a comfort to the lover of sensation to find that the Russian nation may be depended......

Fiction

. BAD CHARACTERS Portrait of a Man with Red Hair. By Hugh Walpole. (Mac millan. 7s. 6d. net.) SOME of the most unpleasant characters in fiction, like Becky Sharp, are thoroughly......

My Tower In Desmond. By S. R. Lysaght. (macmillan. 7s.

6d.)—Written in a quiet, discursive, autobiographical style, this story follows the fortunes of two Irishmen, whose friendship, begun in boyhood upon a farm in Munster, ripens......

Other Novels

Colin II. By E. F. Benson. (Hutchinson. 7s. &I. net.) That side of Mr. E. F. Benson's talent which is not employed in drawing portraits of smart and garrulous ladies inclines to......

The Fight For The Child. By Fred M. White. (john

Long. 7s. 6d. net.)—Mr. Fred White is too old a hand at fiction not to present his readers with an accomplished story. Original it is not, though it may be called......

A Library List

Occidental Gleanings. By Lafeadio Hearn. (Heinemann. 30s.)......