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this creature did, what it wanted to do, and where

it found its match Mr. Powell tells with abundant skill. Then there is an excellent fire-story, in which we are carried on with breathless interest from beginning to end. Another tale, this time of a very weird character, has for a practical moral—Be careful how you handle any book that Lucretia Borgia may have had anything to do with, especially if the leaves are of a greenish hue. Altogether, there is abundance of power shown in this little volume.

Devastation. By Mrs. Coulson Kernahan. (John Long. 6s.)— We must confess that we have not read the whole of this novel.