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Some Books Of The Week.

[Notice in this column does not necessarily preclude sulosequentreviete.] Anthropologists will be interested by Professor G. Elliot Smith's controversial monograph upon The......

Change. By M. P. Willcocks. (hutchinson And Co. 6s.)

—Miss Willeockee latest novel is very uneven ; she is afraid of no experiment, and writes of men and women whom she does not understand, as well as of those whom she does. But......

Travels East Of Suez.* Ir The Writer Of This Entertaining

book has not paid great attention to literary style, she has nevertheless succeeded in giving us a series of vivid pictures of life as she saw it in India and Burma. Her......

Readable Novels.—the Temple In The Tope. By S.

Foskett. (Hodder and Stoughton. 6s.)—The "local colour" of this Indian prize novel is detailed and careful ; its characterization is less satisfactory.—The Romance of a Bed......

Much Ado About Nothing. Told By A Popular Novelist.

With Illustrations in Colour by Averil Burleigh. (Greening and Co. 6s.)—Let us admit at once that the illustra- tions are delightful, and that the "Popular Novelist" has done......

Fiction.

VICTORY. THERE are two unusual features about Mr. Conrad's new novel. The first is the appearance of a quotation from Milton as a motto on the title-page. Mr. Conrad is greatly......