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Some Books Of The Week.

[Under this heading we votice such Books of the week as have not been reserrood for review in other forms.] Pleasure and Problem in South Africa. By Cecil Harmsworth, M.P. (John......

Readable Novels.—chateau Royal. By J. H. Yoxall. (smith,...

Co. 6s.)—The story in its earlier part is a little, in fact more than a little, hard to understand ; any one who struggles on will be repaid.—The Shadow of a Vendetta. By......

The Pour Gospels In The Earliest Church History. By Thomas

Nicol, D.D. (W. Blackwood and Sons. 7s. ed. net.)—" The first line of defence [of the credibility of the Gospel history]," writes Professor Nicol in his preface, "it seems to......

The Advent Of Arthur. By Enid Leigh Hunt. (sampson Low,

Marston, and Co. 6s.)—Though this is a story of common life, no one can complain that it is wanting in the romance which the title seems to suggest. That Joyce, aged sixteen,......

Novels.

BURIED ALIVE.* THE author of this very entertaining work is not the Arnold Bennett who writes of The Grim Smile of the Five Towns, but rather the Arnold Bennett who delighted......

Raw Edges. By Peroeval Landon. (w. Heinemann. 6s.)—in...

of short stories Mr. Landon exhibits a talent for depicting things grim and terrifying. It is not too much to say that there is not one of these stories which does not leave the......