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READAIILS NOTZL8.—Thil Bernal City. By W. J. Eecott. (W. Blackwood

and Sons. 6s.)—The solemn optimism which seeks romance in the Corporation of Glasgow commands respect in spite of glaring improbabilities. South Sea Tales. By Jack London. (Mills and Boon. 6e.)—Eight stories of white men, good or very bad, and of natives in the seafaring life of the Pacific ; all vividly told with only occasional brutality. et Diana of Quebec. By Jean N. M'Ilwraith. (Smith, Elder and Co. 6s.)—Another of the author's Canadian romances, introducing the young, impression- able Nelson.—The Hero of Herat. By M. Diver. (Constable and Co. 6s.)—This is not really fiction, but the splendid material of the first half of Eldred Pottinger's life, mistakenly presented " in romantic form" which obtrudes upon genuine documents and history.