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The House Of Riddles. By Dorothea Gerard. (hutchinson And...

6s.)—The story of The House of Riddles oscillates between the Kiondyke and a seaside University town in Scotland which the reader of the book will have no difficulty in......

The Resurrection Of Cynthia Day. By Florence Morse...

and Stoughton. 6s.) —There is a great deal of charm in this account of what may be called the resuscitation of an old maid. Cynthia Day has, in actual years, reached the......

The Sear. By Francis Warrington Dawson. (methuen And Co....

published by an English house, The Scar is, like the book mentioned above, a story of American life. The scene is laid in Virginia, and the whole atmosphere of the book is as......

Mr. Stopford Brooke On Shakespeare.* The Interest Of The...

drama does not diminish. "Age cannot wither it, nor custom stale." Occasionally, as part of a pose, a clever farceur like Mr. Bernard Shaw may protest that Shakespeare is......

Novels.

I VENDETTA IN VANITY FAIR.* THE novel of society manners (or mannerlessness) has been produced, or perhaps we should say manufactured, in such quantities of late years that a......