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Recent Novels.* The World Below Is Not Only A Good

story, but an ethically bracing and stimulating book. The "novel with a purpose" has a bad name, especially among readers of the more critical sort, and not wholly without......

Alexander's Empire.* Tins Is Almost A Model Book Of Its

kind. As its author (or rather the chief of its two authors) says,—" The story of the conquests of Alexander has been told many times, and his name is familiar in our months as......