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Something  ^yábout  Them.
<06  FICTION  9^
"  An  absurdly  amusing  book.  There  are  hearty  laughs  in  it."—Judy.
Holy  Blue  f  By  Alphonse  de  Florian  (traduced ­
  into  the  English  by  Himself).  With  an  Introduction  by  James
Millington.  LONDON  :  Field  «•  Tuer,  The  Leadenhall  Press,  E.C.
[Two-and-Sixpence  ;  cloth,  Three-and-Sixpence.
A n  amusingly  egotistical  quasi-biographical  story,  wntten  in
idiomatic  French  and  literally  translated  into  the  English
language  by  the  author—one  of  the  Frenchiest  of  French  writers,
"An  interesting  and  cleverly  written  novel  by  a  new  author.”
This  Year,  Next  Year,  Sometime,  Never.  A
Novel,  by  Puck.  LONDON:  Field  &  Tuer,  The  Leadenhall
Press,  E.C.  [In  Two  Volumes,  One  Guinea.
A  STORY  of  to-day  and  of  people  one  constantly  meets.
Though  non-sensational  in  the  sense  of  not  dealing  with
hair-breadth  escapes  and  striking  situations,  the  interest  of  a
remarkable  and  well  told  story  is  maintained  throughout,
(Prince  Pertinax  :  see  Illustrated.)

^  MISCELLANEOUS
*  Far  more  piquant  and  amusing  even  than  ‘John  Bull  and  his  Island,  to
which  it  is  the  companion  volume.”
John  Bull’s  Womankind.  By  Max  O’Rell,
Author  of  "John  Bull  and  His  Island.”  First  Edition,  Twenty-five
Thousand.  LONDON  :  Field  6-  Tuer,  The  Leadenhall  Press,  E.C.
[Yellow  Covers,  Two-and-Sixpence  ;  Cloth,  Three-and-Sixpence.
I N  this  volume,  which  is  the  continuation  of  “John  Bull  and
his  Island,”  Max  O’Rell  describes,  in  his  happiest  vein  of
wit  and  humour,  the  domestic  side  of  English  women,  London
beauties,  shop  girls,  actresses,  women’s  rights,  hallelujah  lasses,
and  so  forth.

♦  *  iZéabénÇaff  ♦  fireea  ♦
S.C.