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Hollowdell Grange; or, Holiday Hours in a Country Home. By

G.- M. Fenn. (Routledge.)—The title of this book sufficiently explains the- contents. The author relates in a simple and pleasant way the adven- tures of a town boy who goes on a visit for a month to his country cousins. They are all good fellows, these boys, and enjoy themselves immensely in the usual country fashion, getting into the proper amount- of harmless scrapes, but never doing anything really wrong. The moral of the story is that all boys should be sent into the country, and a whole- some taste for out-door amusements is sedulously encouraged. The book will certainly be liked by young boys.