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The Fair Lavinia And Others. By Mary E. Wilkins-freeman....

and Brothers. 6s.)—This book contains a collection of short studies of girls all living some hundred years or so ago. The analysis of New England life is given with all the......

The House Of Lynch. By Leonard Merrick. (hodder And...

6s.)—In The House of Lynch Mr. Merrick tells how the daughter of an American millionaire marries a man whose distaste of the manner in which his father-in-law's fortune was......

The Playmate. By Charles Turley. Illustrated By H. R....

(W. Heinemann. 5s.)—There is no need to introduce the author of "Godfrey Marten" and "Maitland Major and Minor " to the readers of the Spectator. His new book, though it carries......

Essays And Addresses. By John Henry Bridges, M.b. With An

Introduction by Frederic Harrison. (Chapman and Hall. 12s. 61 net.)—Part I. of this volume contains five addresses given by Dr. Bridges on various occasions and to various......

Novels.

THE FURNACE.* TEE excellent promise 'shown by Miss Macaulay in her first novel is fully redeemed in her new venture. In more senses than one, The Furnace is an exceptional book,......

Some Books Ole Tiie Week.

[Under this heading as Isaias such hooks of the week as haw rat been reserved for revisal is other forms.] In Our Tongues. By Robert H. Kennett. (E. Arnold. 35. 6d.) —In these......

Folk-lore Of The Holy Land. By J. E. Hanauer. Edited

by Marmaduke Pickthall. (Duckworth and Co. 8s. not.)—This collection begins with a cosmogony as conceived by a " learned Moslem," which may be profitably compared with Genesis......

Reenamat Novels.—captain Dallington. By Katharine S....

Bristol. Gs.)—A story of the machinations of a celebrated highwayman, in which for once the xeader's sympathies are engaged on the side of virtue.—My Merry Rockhursf. By Agnes......