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Grace Toltnar. By John Dangerfield. (Smith and Elder.)—This is a

clever, but not an attractive story,—the story of a love that was marred by misunderstandings, and of a life, or rather of two lives, which the marring of that lave destroyed. Mr. Dangerfield draws his portraits well,—of the outwar -efeatures with special skill, and of tho character with no little subtlety and precision. Grace Telmar, and Count Rehden, the hero's rival in love, are very distinctly portrayed; the hero himself is less definitely set forth,—not an uncommon fault, we take it, in stories that have the autobiographical form. Readers who do not object to tales of a tragical sort—there is nothing horrible, it should be under- stood—may well read Grace Tobnar, which has among other merits. that of brevity.