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Silvia Craven. By N. Gordon Holmes. (Elliot Stock.)—We found this

tale very tedious, and must confess, to be quite candid, that we did not finish it. Indeed, it seemed to us that enough had been done for practically estimating the writer's merit when we came to the following passage :—" Graham of Claverhouse, that stern old Puritan patriot, who played so conspicuous a part in his own times, and is all but forgotten in ours." "Bonny Dundee" a Puritan !