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BOOKS OF TO-DAY, "LA GARCONNE" IN ENGLISH,

[BY "AUTOLYCUS."]

One of the new books we have anticipat ed with a considerable degree of curiosity is "The Bachelor Girl," by Victor Mar gueritte (Philpot Lady. It will perhaps

the foo'sle. There were Lynch anal Fitz- gibbon, the buckos, living up to their grim code; and the Knisting Swede," ilut princo of crimps, There was Cockney, the gutless swab

And lastly

and chiefly, there was the man with the scar, he who called himself "Nowmak mag of mystery *

What a ship's company! As pretty a

be remembered that under the title of "ut of heartless villains as you ever wish to meet in the pages of a novel. There Gurconue, this novel got its author into either a fight, or some black devilry or considerable trouble with the

French

ngh wicked brutality on almost every page, of quite recently on discount of the this picturesque tale of the fateful voyago ngerous revolutionary moral doctrin

of the Golden Bough, it preachus, or rather suggests, The English version by Hugh Burnaby, "has been modified to a certain extent, though Two more of those delightful. little the story has been-left intact, and theditions of the New Anatole France series translator believes that

VALUE FOR MONEY."

in no way detract from the difications Head-"Pierre Naziero" and "At the Sign questions of techuigne the apart from have just been published from the Bodley

interest of a of the Reino Pédunque,

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vivid and powerful story dealing with certain section of post-war socity As "The Bachelor Giri, the novel has er tainly been stripped af many objection able details that are so shocking in the original, and it remains a ruthless study of the havoc wrought in a young girl by the craving for the excitements of passion,

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quality of both production and subject matter I know of no better value at half- stall in the literary crown on nay, market day. They are having an im- mense sale, which speaks well for the taste and discrimination of English readers,

SOLD LIKE MERCHANDISE.", The novel deals, with the life story of Muaique Lorbier, daughter of a well-to-do manufacturer. On the eve of her yedding she lyrus of the bargain that her inther bas mind with her future husband, The manufacturing business is in red of money, and the heavy dowry that should the

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fiction vencers are better ne with than any other quarter of The interest commences when

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Everything is in necurdanes says in effect: "Very well, if men ran be with the accepted standard of such talow, have like this, so ear: I: what is good for but this one is particularly well written the bachelor is abo good for the bachelor and enjoyable, girl. I will do the same as they so." Aud 30, with men of her own choosing, she drifts into the moral abyss until finally | Theow and revised edition of Lionel what seems an ideal marriage makes an Johnson's The Art of Thomas Hardy" honest woman of her-refined in the fire (The Bodley Heady will bring a full of love, as it were, "When we smell a measure "of "delight to the hosts of Mr. flower, do we think of the manure heap Hardy's admirers. If Me Hardy is a is the concluding sentence of the povel. great writer, so was Mr. Johnson & great This book contains some of the Naturally, it is thoroughly French in eritic, Bavour and outlook. : Marguerite has mos glorious prose writing of moderu a grouch against society that lives for times, and it is a joy to read such sound pleasure, and makes his condemnations in literary workmanship. No phase of Mr. painted language. He deals mainly with Hardy's work as a novelist is left un- types that

but touched, and no writer had had his work gratify their physical desires. But for a criticised and analysed with such care. that there is nothing vicious about the insight and sympathy as Lionel Johnson story: it is comparatively harmless. There brought to bear on the compilation at is as el resemblance between "La

this magnificent piece of literary criticism, Garconne" and "The Bachelor Girl 3 The revised edition has been long over- there is between the forest bred lion roam- tional section by Mr. J. E. Barton; head-"

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