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Routledge's American Library — We have received three volumes of 'this series,

respectively entitled, 7'h Four Irrepressibles, That Husband of Mine, and Mr. Miggs of Danbury, by the Danbury Dustman. For the two first the author of Helen's Babies is responsible, not in the sense of a guilty party, but in that of a helpless victim of very base imitation indeed. They are moro rubbish, without the smallest trace of humour or life-likeness. The third is also a dull book, though perhaps in its own country, where its local allusions and strictly paro- chial personalities are intelligible, it may be found amusing, by persons of the turn of mind of the friends of Mr, Peter Magnus in Pickwick, who signed himself " Afternoon " to amuse them.