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SOME COMMOTION. By EL M. Ward - (Fisher"Uuwirt: 7e.-641.) This. is

a pretty and amusing book about- a girl brought up by rich adopted parents. She returns to live among her: poor relations, by whose. doings and sufferings, she is-greatly amused and touched. Do the handworkers ever look at the. more affluent classes through this tender but satiric medium ? If they ever do, and if they write down on paper what-they see, we shall- 'mow- ourselves better than we do at:present: