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The Author Of The Blazed Trail Has Once More Turned

his remarkable and intimate knowledge of British North America to admirable account. The date of the story can be fixed by internal evidence,—the mention of the Winchester rifle......

Before The Crisis. By F. B. Mott. (john Lane. 68.)—this

book deals (as its title suggests) with America before the out- break of the Civil War, and during the campaign of John Brown and his sons. It will probably be news to most......

Julia. By Katharine Tynan. (smith, Elder, And Co. 6a.)— This

is a most delightful little story in which the wistful charm of "John Bull's Other Island " is very fully brought out. The character of old Mrs. O'Havanagh (who is the real......

Fiscal Ballads.

Fiscal Ballads. By Harry Graham. (E. Arnold. ls. net.)— These ballads, which originally appeared, for the most part, in the Westminster Gazette, are very good. Indeed, we cannot......

Cut Laurels. By M. Hamilton. (w. Heinemann. 6s.)—cut...

also an Irish story, but of a very different type from the novel noticed above. Miss Hamilton's novel might have its scene laid in any part of the British Islands ; "Julia" is......