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a notice of it would have been most appropriate,—the Christmas season. We will do it a tardy justice now, all the more willingly out of regard for the author, whose untimely death certainly did something to "eclipse the gaiety of nations." The book, which may be said to belong to the school of "Alice in Wonderland," though it is sufficiently original to escape being called an imitation, is exceedingly amusing. There are Frank's adventures in Quadrupedremia, for instance, where he falls in with a lot of hideous and anomalous creatures who reproach him with the inconsistencies and inconveniences of their formation. He had eaten too much plum-cake, it seemed, after a visit to the Zoological Gardens, and had dreamed these horrid things; and lo I here they are, like the figures who, as the followers of Mohammed believe, will start up in the Judgment Day to demand life from those who have made them. And others of Frank's adventures are equally good.
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