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The Girl's Own Annual. (The "Leisure Hour" Office.)—Here is a

handsome volume of more than eight hundred pages, printed in three eolamns, and containing a vast amount of reading. Miss Rose Nonchette Carey contributes a serial story "Esther," and J. A. Owen (we cannot say whether Mr. or Miss) another, entitled ." Candelaria : a Tale of the Rocky Mountains," while a third, "Her Own Choice," is written by Miss Rath Lamb. There are other stories and minor articles, both grave and gay, almost without number.