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Amor Vincit. By Mrs. R. S. Garnett. (duckworth And Co.

6s.) —Mrs. Garnett has written a fine story. It is long and, for the most part, sombre, but it keeps a high level. The scene is laid among moors and mines in the wilder parts of......

The Magazines.

In the Nineteenth Century is an elaborate survey by Mr. Edgar Crammond of "Imperial Defence and Finance." By means of exhaustive statistics he shows the ratio which exists at......

Some Books Of The Week.

[Under fhis heading we notice such Books of the week as hare not bus i curved for review in other fornu.1 The Old Irish World. By Alice Stopford Green. (Macmillan. 4e.......

Readablb Novins.—the Long Engagement. By E. S. Stevens....

Boon. 6s.)—A. country story of the doings of people of the upper middle class.—Thc Triumphs of Fabian Fichl: Criminologist. By Dick Donovan. (F. V. White and Co. 6s.)— A series......

Fiction.

MIGHTIER THAN THE SWORD.• More than one attempt has been made to analyse the ethical reaction on a man's character of the manifold opportunities which he has, if he be the......

The Silver Medallion. By Percy James Brebner. (mills And...

6s.)—There is a great deal in this novel about a secret society which pretended to have the most exalted motives for committing a series of horrible murders. The characters play......