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Flowers And Gardens Of Japan. Painted By Ella Du-cane, And

Described by Florence Du-Cane. (A. and C. Black. 20s. net.) —The • publishers make a welcome addition to their " Series of Beautiful Books." Much in Japanese horticulture is......

Some Books Of The Week.

[Under this heading we notice inch Books of the week as have not bees reserved for review in other forms.] The Care of Natural Monuments. By H. Convents. (Cambridge University......

Peter. By F. Hopkinson Smith. (hodder And Stoughton. Os.)...

is another American novel, but most of the scene is laid in New York, and although the latter part of the story passes in the country, the characters are most of them New......

The Greater Love. By Anna Mcclure Shell. (t. Fisher Unwin.

es.) — This is a story of provincial life in America. It differs in many ways from the books on this subject from which English readers have been accustomed to get their......

Novels.

THE GIFTED FAMILY.* Or recent years there has been an acute conflict of opinion • over the significance of the suburbs—from the point of view of fiction. The realists, with the......

The Heart Of Lakeland. By Lehmann J. Oppenheimer....

Hughes. Os. net.)—This volume is largely occupied with the Lake region as it appears at times when it is not a popular resort, with certain out-of-the-way spots in it, and with......

Roads To Riches. By Thornton Hall. (t. Werner Laurie. As.

6d. net.)—This "Romance of Money-Making "—it might be added of " Money-Losing "—is full of anecdote. Mr. Hall begins with telling us how various millionaires on both sides of......

Readable Novels. —the Mystery Of The Myrtles. By Edgar...

and Co. 6e.)—A. story of the occult which ought to satisfy even the most robust appetite. No one could desire a more complete clearing of the scene than that which the last......

We Have Received The Second Volume Of Lives Of The

British. Saints, by S. Baring-Gould, M.A., and John Fisher, B.D. (C.' J. Clarke, 65 Chancery Lane, for the Society of Cymmrodorion). The volume includes from "S. Cadell—S.......