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The Story Of The British Navy. By E. Kelpie Chatterton.

(Mills and Boon. 10s. 6d. net.)—One of Mr. Chatterton's aims is to do justice to the men who, at successive stages in our history, helped to build up our Navy, to create its......

Novels.

THE PAWNS OP FATE.* THE maxim that hard cases make bad law admits of a special application to those works of fiction which, as in the case of Pawns of Fate, are pamphlets in......

Some Books Of The Week.

[Under this heading we notice such Books of the week as have not bun reserved for review in other forms.] The Book of Books. By Lonsdale Ragg, D.D. (Edward Arnold. 5s.......

Readable Novelel—wells Brothers. By Andy Adams. (con-...

6s.) A remarkable story of the cattle trade in the South-west of the United States.—Table d'Hcite. By W. Pett Ridge. (Hodder and Stoughton. 2s. net.)—Seventeen amusing short......

Robnetta. By Kate Douglas Wiggin And Others. (('ay And...

6s.)—There are as many as three "others," and &critic's first duty is to congratulate them on the success with which they have accommodated themselves to the style of the chief......

The Church Year And Kalendar. By John Dowden, D.d. (cam-

bridge University Press. 4s. net.)—In this book, which belongs to the series of "Cambridge Handbooks of Liturgical Study," we have some of the latest work of the lamented Bishop......

The Mark Of His Calling. By A. Allen Breckington. (cassell

and Co. 6s.)—It is not everyone who would have the courage to choose such a hero as Gerald Fenton. For a long time he seems bound to fail, and, indeed, he shows himself somewhat......