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Burick. By Annie Grant. (Swan Sonnenschein and Co.)—This tale is

not easy reading. The very form which has been given to it is unattractive ; for it is only very good matter that can stand close printing. A phantasmagoria of unfamiliar figures, masters and serfs, men and women, noble and low-born, move before us, the dramatis persona of an obscure tragedy. There seem to be materials for Bomething powerful, but the vis fortnatriz is absent.