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 LATEST FICTION DIANA DETHRONED. A Novel. By W. M. Letts. Crown 8vo, 6s. %* Phoebe Lankester, unconsciously to herself, is pledged to the old pagan ideal represented by Diana the Huntress. Healthy in body and mind, Phoebe stands aloof from the troubles and desires of humanity, until in her own wrecked happiness she awakes slowly to the need of some power greater and kindlier than ever Diana knew. It is only af*^er the absolute surrender of self and after the awakening of a greater, more maternal love than she has as yet known that she finds peace. Love and death and pity have conquered Diana, and the statue of the goddeas that once adorned the Lankesters' hall is banished to a lumber room. SOMEONE PAYS: By Noel Barwell. Crown 8vo, 6s. cause and effect, is not a novel with a problem or a purpose. The story is told by means of the correspondence passing between a number of persons. We are first introduced to the post-bag at a country Vicarage where Sir Bernard Orr's son is being coached. Later the scene changes to Cambridge, and we watch the develop- ment of a romance and an awkward entanglement which arise at the Vicarage. Everything is smoothed out and ends happily for all parties, especially for an unscrupulous, triumphant cleric. THE PRINCE'S PRANKS. A Novel. By Charles Lowe. Crown 8vo, 6s. SIXPENNY PIECES. By A. Neil Lyons. Uni- form with " Arthur's." Crown 8vo, 6s. ARTHUR'S. By A. Neil Lyons. Crown 8vo, 6s. a nightly foregathering of shady personalities who meet " to un- chain their intellects and get to the bottom of things." Mr. Neil Lyons has by one reviewer been called " Phil May in Literature." He is thoroughly at home in the midst of the curbstone society whose human tendencies and capacity for romance and intrigue he so deftly portrays : be it cabman, drunken sailor, pickpocket or destitute wretch, he draws all with the unerring instinct of an artist and brother. THE ODD MAN. A Novel. By Arnold Hol- COMBE. Crown 8vo, 6s.
 * ^* " Someone Pays," though exemplifying a subtle train of
 * ^* Arthur is the proprietor of a coffee-stall, the centre of