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Hurree de Fontenay ; or, All Lost Save Honour. By

Mrs. Tylee. 3 vols. (Tinsley Brothers.)—Here is another" Claimant" story, and one of a most astonishing kind. That the son of an eminent professor of the art of Thuggee should become possessed of the title and estates of a English earldom is a large demand upon one's faith. Indeed, a more extravagant combination of improbabilities than that which has been put together in these volumes we have seldom seen. Beyond this ex- travagance, the book has no special characteristics. General Harcourt and his wife, who are meant to be little else than lay figures, the Bri- tenni " who lift the curtain, are really the most interesting and life-like figures in the story.