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makes even his slightest literary efforts remarkable. And most of

these tales have a fascination in them, thin as they are. But they certainly are of the goldbeater-skin kind of literature,—beaten out into a texture as thin and fine as it is possible for literature to assume. Still, no one who takes up this volume will be likely to leave it unfinished. The trifles are slight, but they are of delicate workmanship.