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READABLE NOVELS.—The Plotters of Peking. By Carlton Dave. (Eveleigh Nash.

6s.)—A series of marvellous adventures and escapes for which "hairbreadth" is a quite inadequate epithet. Ross Durham, Surgeon. By David Lyall. (Hodder and Stoughton. 6s.)—A powerful story of religious and sender life;_ the canvas is overcrowded with figures and the plot entangled with threads.