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THE NAVAL ANNUAL. The Naval Annual, 1906. Edited by J. Leyland and T. A. Brassey. (Simpkin, Marshall, and Co. 15s. net.)—There have been many important developments relating to......
Story, "concerning Isabel Carnaby," Will Be Glad To Meet The
same character in the present novel. In this book Miss Fowler has returned, as far as epigrams are concerned, to what may be called her old form, and every page bristles with......
Novels.
THE TRAVELLER'S JOY.* Ma. PIERCE is an incorrigible optimist, a devout lover of Nature, and he has, moreover, a very sincere reverence for womanhood, three qualities so......
An Elderly Person. By Ella Macmahon. (chapman And Hall....
MacMahon is better at a long story than at a collection of short sketches. Her forte is not in striking situations, but in the development of character arising out of the......
A Supreme Moment. By Mrs. Hamilton Synge. (t. Fisher Unwin.
6s.)—Mrs. Synge has succeeded in making a very interesting story out of extremely simple, and even unpromising, materials. A man of independent means—a valetudinarian of settled......
The Woman In The Alcove. By Anna Katharine Green. (chatto
and Windus. 6s.)—Miss Anna Katharine Green is not invariably up to her own standard of sensational mystery, but in The Woman. in the Alcove she contrives to keep the reader's......
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