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Shans At Home. By Mrs. Leslie Milne. (john Murray. 15s.

net.)—Mrs. Milne has had an excellent opportunity and has made an excellent use of it. The "Shams at Home" make a very pleasant picture. They are happily dispositioned people,......

For The Reader To Acquiesce Without A Protest In The

conduct of Angela Tempest after her wedding. It is all very fine to be married to an impoverished Scottish laird in Scottish fashion on the hillside and to propose to lead the......

Novels.

A SCOUT'S SON.* Ourc only grievance against A Scout's Son is concerned with its get-up. The print and paper are excellent, and the name of the artist might well have been given......

Party Portraits, And Other Verses. By C. L. Graves. (smith,

Elder, and Co. is. net.)—As the first two poems in this ingenious and amusing little volume appeared in the Spectator, we cannot of course criticise them. We may, however, state......

Som1 4 Books Of Tiie Week.

[Under this heading we notice such Books qf th. week as has. not he* reserved for review in other Anna.] Educational Aims and Efforts. By Sir Philip Magmas, M.P. (Longmans and......

Harvard Studies In Classical Philology. Vol. Xxi....

(Is. 6d. net.)—All the "studies" in this volume should have interested readers ; the most generally attractive will be Miss Hetty Goldman's thesis for the Eliot Norton Greek......

Readablb Novnrs.—opal Fire. By Mrs. Campbell Praed....

6s.)—A story of life in the Australian bush. It contains a very painful incident of a disaster to a child which is only too poignantly described.—Hearts and Coronets. By Alice......