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Goody Platts. By Thomas Miller. (Sampson Low, Son, and Mara-

ton.)—.A. tour de force of seventy-eight pages in words of one and two syllables, with a frontispiece depicting an old woman in a scarlet cloak, a blue gown, and yellow petticoat. Mr. Miller knows the tastes of his readers.