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A Matter of Millions. By Anna Katharine Green. (Routledge and

Son.)—This is an excellent story, though the complications of

the plot are almost extravagant. A dying man leaves the millions of which he becomes possessed almost in his last moments, to a stranger whom he has just seen for the first time, in trust for a person whom he has never seen at all, and, indeed, does not positively know to exist. A plot such as we may safely affirm never was contrived by mortal man, is formed to get hold of the money. But, if we can swallow the improbability, we shall have no more difficulty with the story. It is told in a very brilliant way. Not the least skilful thing in it is the sympathy which is excited for the girl who is the chief actor in the scheme.