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THE TALE OF TRIONA.t The Tale of Triona is not

in Mr. Locke's best manner. All that can be said in its praise is that it is readable throughout. None of the characters lives, but the story is well told. English society and a beautiful woman take a novelist of adventure at his word. His fictions are believed, and the fact involves a weak but naturally candid man in the terrible coil of his own romancings. How both the world and the lady found him

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out and forgave him is told in a manner which will often irritate but never exactly bore the reader.