* * * * * If you should chance to hanker for a change from novels in which the hero and heroine dally over-long in falling in love you will get it by reading _The Fur-Bringers_ (HODDER AND STOUGHTON). No time is wasted upon preliminaries, not a minute; and as soon as _Ambrose Deane_ and _Colina Gaviller_ have met and discovered at sight that they are just made for each other the really exciting part of the story begins. I forget how many times _Ambrose_ is arrested during the course of the tale, but I do know that things keep on happening all the time, and that the rescue of the hero by the Indian girl _Nesis_ is delightfully told. Altogether Mr. HULBERT FOOTNER'S picture of the life of a trader in Athabasca is particularly attractive. I like it all, including the cover. * * * * * [Illustration: THE DOUCEUR.] * * * * * "At Leicester Assizes Levi Durance, aged thirty-four, a discharged soldier, was sentenced to ten months' imprisonment for bigamy."--_Pall Mall Gazette._ A proper verdict this, that for a while Turns LEVI DURANCE into durance vile.