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 obvious is excellently done, and so, too, is that of gentle, fair-haired Katherine Holroyd, who alone of them all saw the danger and tried her best to warn Vivi-
 cite of the trouble her folly and selfish coquetry were bound to make. There is
 also brief but charming picture of the soft, undulating Warwickshire coun- try through which Viviette and Austin took their memorable drive, and another of the gray old Elizabethan manor house, to which the stables planned by Dick proved so unsuitable an appendage, there by giving him another cause for consid- erng himself injured and aggrieved. The
 tale moves swiftly and the episode of the
 duel is not without thrills.
 THE REVELATIONS OF A GERMAN ATTACHE"
 By Emil Witte, late councillor of the
 legation at Washington. With an in troduction by Slason Thompson. George
 H. Doran Co.,, publishers, New York.
 What has Germany been thinking and planning concerning the United States
 during the past 12 years? What lies back of her diplomatic attitude to- wards us? Are we to be hoodwinked
 and deceived as Britain was? Are we to be blinded by fiattery and mere pro- fession?
 i, This intimate account of Emil witte attached to the German embassy at Washington and the foreign office in
 Berlin QS9S-1907) is a partial revela- tion-the activities of Germany during the past two years is part of the
 fruits of this well-laid campaign. THE WHITE PEARL" By Ethel Barnard Delano and Samuel
 Field; Ruffeld & Co., publishers, 211 West Thirty-third street, New York.
 A fanciful romance of New England and the orient, "The White Pearl" by
 Ethel Barnard Delano and Samuel Field The white pearl, a jewel stolen from the shrine of Buddha in Japan, finds it's way by devious routes to Fair haven in New England. There Bob AL den gives it to his sweetheart, Nancy
 Marvel, a sea captains daughter, and the story of it's wanderings thereafter is very novel and exciting one. The prophecy Is that the pearl will not be returned to Buddha till four lives have been sacrificed, and the readers sympa- thies are kept at a. keen edge when Bob and Nancy sail for Japan and are shipwrecked. Very charming fllustra- tions are provided by reproductions from the moving picture play Of the same theme, performed by Marie Doro' THESE LYNNEKERS." By J. D. BereSIOTu deOi H. bOi oii CO. publishers, New York. 1 The creator of Jacob Stahl, that re- markable trilogy which placed J, D.
 Beresford among the first six living reaIists reaches a new high level Tn | "These I.ynnekers"-the authors most ambitious and deliberate effort, Tn which he eminently succeeds-i | Dick Lynneker from boyhood through adolescence to manhood is charac- | ti0,, of | to literature.
 1 The story marks a distinct advance in the progress of this important Eng fish realist. There are the same clear 1 ly realized characters, the same amaz- ing illusion of reality in the back ground, plus a grateful new whole | someness and freshness.
 The author of the famous trilogy,
 "The Early History of Jacob Stahl.'
 "A Candidate for Truth and ''The In- visible Event." is to be congratulated 1 in the outcome of his work He has l taken rank as one of the foremost
 members of that group of English | reaiists who are at present the most
 significant authors in modern English l fiction.
 "oTHER BOOKS RECEIVED. (REVIEWS LATER.) | THE LOVE LETTERS OF A MYSTIC" By Alma Newton. The John Lane 1 Co.,, publishers, New York.
 1 LOOT" By Arthur Somers Roche. l The Bobbs Merrill Co.,, publishers, Indianapolis.
 ''FLASHLIGHTS. By Mary Aldis | Duffield & Co.,, publishers, New York. | "RECLAIMING THE BALLOT" By 1 Ward Macauley. Duffield & Co.,, pub fishers, New York.