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The "Penny Pocket Library" (S.P.C.K.) deserves a hearty welcome. The

volumes now before us are :—Rotanson Crusoe, Southey's Life of Nelson, Sir Walter Scott's Talisman, Fenimore Cooper's Last of the Mohicans, Marryatt's Master:nen Beady, and Owen Hartley and Ned Garth, two stories by the late W. H. G. Kingston.