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Fiction.

SACRED AND PROFANE LOVE. Precious Bane. By Mary Webb. (Cape. 7s. 61.) Precious Bane has many qualities which, though not pernicious in themselves, require careful handling, and......

Jean Paul . Mart : His - Career In England And France

before the Revolution. By Sidney L. Phipson, M.A. (Methuen. 7s. 6d. net.) There is always interest, both legitimate, and purely sensationalist, in the beginnings of men who '......

Other Novels.—the Compulsory Millionaire. By W. Harold...

7s. 6d. net.)—A very entertaining story describing how the residents of a remote island in the North of Scotland insist on taking an ordinary tourist for a millionaire. The......

Shorter Notices.

THE BOOK OF THE WANDLE. By John Morrison Hobson. (Routledge. 10s. 6d. net.) " Twenty years ago," said Ruskin in The Crown of Wild Olive, " there was no lovelier piece of lowland......