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Into Temptation. By A. Perrin. 2 vole, (F. V. White

and Co ).—This is but a poor story in respect of literary merit or interest, and not particularly wholesome. The heroine marries a foolish and disagreeable man in order to get away from a home where she meets with no kindness, goes out to India, engages in some pronounced flirtations in what we hope is a gross caricature of Indian society ; loses, or rather is freed from, her husband, and comes back to England to receive another offer from a man whom she almost loves. Shall she accept him, or go to live in a flat in London ? That is the question which she asks herself, and which she answers in faVour of the fiat—for the present—when we reach the end of the second volume. The woman's story would be dis- agreeable in any case; told as it is by herself it is something

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