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and Aunt Ruyvenaer. The few Malay words employed by the last-named, by Otto van Naghel’s wife and by her native nurse are explained in notes as and when they occur.

Small Souls is the first of a series of four novels describing the fortunes of the Van Lowe family and known in Holland by the generic title of The Books of the Small Souls. The remainder will be translated and published if and as the antecedent volumes find favour with English and American readers. They are called: The Later Life, The Twilight of the Souls and Dr. Adriaan.

Alexander Teixeira de Mattos.

CHELSEA,

4 December, 1913.