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The Great Release. By K. Keith. (chapman And Hall. 6s.)—this

is a clever but really painful novel, in which the hero is cursed by cowardliness owing to pre-natal influences. The story of Francis Cbolmondely's boyhood is almost too......

The Magazines.

Sm. FRANCIS PIGGOTT, late Chief Justice of Hong Kong, writes in the Nineteenth Century of "The German Imperial- Colonial Blunder "—i.e., the complete misunderstanding on the......

Raid:ia.13ln Novers.—the Recoiling Force. By A. M....

6s.)—An uninspired story with, nevertheless, a capital plot. In spite of ourselves, we are interested in its many characters.—Sanin,e. By Michael Artzibashef. (Martin Seeker.......

Fiction.

LANDMARKS.* Mn. LIICA8'S new excursion into the realms of fiction, though it retains some of the characteristic features of his previous "easygoing chronicles," shows a somewhat......

Oddsfish. By Robert Hugh Benson. (hutchinson And Co....

point of view always maintained by Monsignor Benson, whose death will be deplored by a very large body of novel readers, makes his account of life in the days of Charles IL......