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The Queen's Token. By Mrs. Cashel Hoey. (Spencer Blackett.) —This

romance is not at all in Mrs. Cashel Hoey's usual manner, and is, moreover, a story of Queen Elizabeth's time, the plot of which is the history of a treasure kept in trust for the Queen of Scots. The "open-sesame" of this hoard is, needless to say, the "Queen's Token," a unique gem. How the brothers die, and their secret with them, is gracefully told by the writer in a calm and

unimpassioned narrative, which is withal somewhat plaintive. The principal figure, Brother Cyprian, is a poetical figure drawn with much care and tenderness. It is both a pretty story and a short one, and is extremely well written.