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which, it must be said, affords a certain relief after

the problems dealt with above. At the same time, Mr. Capes must have due credit for having taken as much pains with his character- drawing as if lie had no plot to fall back upon. Some of his personages are perhaps a little conventional, but Harry Harrier Is a good creation, and the• book would be an entertaining one with which to while away a tedious railway journey.