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READABLE NOVELS.—The Silver Zone. By Kathleen P. Emmett (Mrs. Foley).

(John Murray. 6s.)—A curious story concerned with Indian native life. It impresses the reader with the author's insight into the minds of the natives.—Father Alphonsus. By H. A. Hinkson. (T. Fisher Unwin. 6s.)—A story of an Irish priest who does not find it so simple a matter as he believed at the beginning to keep his Ordination vows.—Concerning Belinda. By Eleanor Hoyt Brainerd. (Cassell and Co. 35. 6d.)—Ten very amusing studies of life in a fashionable girls' school in New York. Is the chrysalis of the brilliant American girl really of such strange formation?—Irene of the Ringlets. By Horace Wyndham. (John Milne. 6s.)—A story of the stage in couleur de rose. Irene gets everything that she wishes without trouble.—Young Columbine. By Dorothea Deakin. (Methuen and Co. 6s.)— There is nothing rosy about this story.. The heroine only wishes to escape from her occupation, and just succeeds.—A Curtain of Cloud. By Major C. Sillery. (W. Blackwood and Sons. 6s.)— A story which, though not very artistically put .together, com- mands attention.