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Novels.

THE PEDESTAL.* ENTERING the lists as the author of a very entertaining and original school-story, Mr. Coke has shown sagacity as well as ingenuity in evading the dangers which......

Maroft. By John Ayscough. (a. Constable And Co. 6s.) —...

is of so serious a tendency that it might seem more appropriate to notice it under the heading of theological works than under that of fiction. Much of the scone passes in a......

The Magazines.

THE Nineteenth Century for June contains a long and most important article by Sir William White on "The Cult of the Monster Warship," in which be asks that the nation should......