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.tiasteli's Remains. By Barrett Wendell. (Ticknor, Boston, ; Trfilmer, London.)—Mr.

Wendell seeks to emulate Nathaniel Haw- thorne, or, we might say, Poe. The last scans, where the dead millionaire's corpse is stolen from the tomb in the splendid church built out of his ill-gotten wealth, is very like to some of Poe's most ghastly efforts. But Mr. Wendell is no mere imitator. On the con- trary, he has a genuine strength of his own, and there is a serious meaning under his imaginings. There is no little bitterness of satire in the apparently commonplace second title, "An American Novel."