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Furnished Lodgings. By Anna H. Drury. 3 vols. (Bentley.)— Under

this unpretending title Miss Drury contrives to give her readers plenty of romantic incident. Indeed, tho situation with which the story opens is curious,—a young lady, left by the old lady to whom she has been companion in possession of a house and an annuity, which she is to enjoy so long as a pet dog and cat continue to live, while she herself is never to be absent from the house for a single night. Plots against the lives of these important animals, and against the fulfilment of the other condition, are, of coarse, made. There is also, of coarse, a love- story. And the whole is made up with the skill of a practised hand into a readable tale. The best thing in the book is the description of the loan-office.