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(Sampson Low, Marston, and Co.)—This is one of the budgets

of curiosities and marvels with which Mr. Dyer is wont from time to time to amuse, perplex, or possibly terrify his readers. Strange curses, mysterious rooms, bloodstains that cannot be washed out, spent. compacts with the Devil, banshees and other omens of death, are

Cassell's Illustrated History of England. Vol. VIII. (Cassell among the themes which are here treated. Something of a and Co.)—The eighth and concluding volume (concluding, i.e., lighter or more cheerful tone is interspersed in " Lucky Accidents." for the present), carries the reader on from the British Occupa- Most of these stories will be familiar to readers who care for this

kind of literature.