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Tales of Humour (Burns and Oates), are apparently, if we

may judge from one or two indications of style, translated from the French. They are all of fair quality, and two or three of thorn eminently justify the title, that for, instance, of Dr. Peperkouk, a herbalist, who cures some great people by means not secundwn artem ; and that called the "Emperor's Present," where a certain merchant receives a gift of two tigers, and is exceedingly embarrassed with it. With this we may mention Stories of Home Life in the North and South of England (Newman), and a book which contains some queer stories, humorous and serious, Irish Folk-Lore, by Lageniensis (Cameron and Ferguson).