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Mr. Payn's New Novel.*

INGENUITY is a quality of great value to novelists, and espe- cially when they adopt the serial form as their method of in- teresting readers in the fate of their creations. Mr.......

George Smith, Of Coalville.* Whatever The Mental Attitude...

men of science may assume with regard to any system of Christianity, it will yet, in its innermost spirit, be found to be the great working hypothesis for the civilisation of......

Short Stories.*

As far as our memory serves, there are few great English' novelists who have been successful in writing short tales. In • Pamoges from the Diary of an Early Methodist. By the......