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Heart Stories. By Theodore Bartlett. (G. P. Putnam's Sons.) —This

volume is a memorial of a young man of considerable ability, who died just when a literary career seemed to be opening before him. " Lydd's," the first and most important of the six pieces here printed, is a pathetic story, somewhat in the style of Bret Harts, when he is in his most serious mood.