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Disinherited, By Henry Cresewell. 3 vols. (Hurst and Blackett.) There

are certainly some good things in Disinherited, but we cannot allow that the plot is one of them. The opening of this story leads us to supposs that tie indignation of Blanche Hargrave against the Challoners, who have be come possessors of her father's estate, has something t do with the motive. After all, a Chai- loner becomes the hero ; the chief interest of the reader is de- manded for a son of th 3 knave whom Blanche denounces. This does not hinder the tale from being decidedly readable. Mrs. Dubois is well drawn, though we doubt whether she would have proceeded to such extremities as are here attributed to her. Her infatuation for her miserable little husband is admirably described; so is the mannikin himself.