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Dick Wylder. By Richard Pendorel. 2 vols. (Remington and Co.)—There

is much tedious reading in Dick Wylder and too many characters, some of them being almost impossible. It requires a more skilled pen than Richard Penderel's to keep so many people alive and interesting. The thread of the narrative is being continually interrupted to carry on somebody else's little story, and consequently the two volumes seem long enough to be twelve. Mr. Penderes style is most wearisome, and hie attempt to write cleverly and satirically is a most melancholy failure. One hears that the three-volume novel is doomed, but the two-volume novel will have to go, if the average two-volume writer is going to be as tedious as Richard Penderel.