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READABLE NOVELS.—Jewish Children. Translated by Hannah Berman from the Yiddish

of "Shalom Aleichem." (Heinemann. 6s. net.)—A series of charming Jewish folk-tales, which have apparently lost little of their essential quality in the process of translation. There is a dramatic simplicity about the author's treatment of his theme. The book is instinct with the spirit of the law, especially in its role of schoolmaster.--The Time of Her Life, and other Stories. By Maude Robinson. (Swarth- more Press. 6s. net.)—These stories of Quaker life in eighteenth-century England are necessarily, in strong contrast to the foregoing. Though without any peculiar distinction of style and lacking in dramatic incident, and in spite of the obvious drawback of their being half fact and half fiction, they make very pleasant reading.