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READABLE Novnts.—Pomp and Circumstance. By Dorothea, Gerard. (John Long. Os.)—A

story of a girl who has some claim

to be called a modern Antigone, and of how she saved her father from a despairing snicide.—Mrs. Whiston's House Party. By Thomas Cobb. (Everett and Co. Oa)—This novel announces its theme in the title. It is written with Mr. Cobb's usual facility and smoothness.—The Alternative. By A. F. Slade. (Hutchinson and Co. 6s.)—The story of s rather unsatisfactory marriage. The heroine's mother is depicted as being almost impossibly odious.