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• The Vrouw Grobelaar's Leading Cases. By Perceval...

Blackwood and Sons. 6s.)—Mr. Perceval Gibbon has found virgin soil, which he is tilling to much profit. His "Souls in Bondage" showed a remarkable insight into the half-caste......

Novels.

ROSE AT HONEYPOT.* MRS. MANN, whose name on the title-page of a navel always rouses agreeable anticipations in the mind of the reviewer, administers in her new work a salutary......

Hugo. By Arnold Bennett. (chatto And Windus. 6s.)—mr...

very justly describes his story as a "fantasia," for the plot of Hugo concerns an enormous shop,—a shop so big that it resembles Whiteley's, Harrod's, and the Army and Navy......

Current Literat (ire.

TILL EDINBURGH REVIEW. The new number of the Edinburgh Review opens with an admirable article on "Protection and the Working Classes." It deals patiently and dispassionately......

Some Books Of The Week.

[Under this heading us notice such Books of ths week as have not been reserved for review in other forms.] The Expositor. Edited by W. Robertson Nicoll, LL.D. (Hodder and......

Explained In A "publisher's Note" That This Is An Entirely

new book, "embodying little more than the framework of its pre- decessor," the well-known " Lippincott's Pronouncing Gazetteer." Its pages exceed two thousand in number, and the......