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Hester Morley's Promise.*

THE author of the Doctor's Dilemma is writing too fast. She has a good deal of material to draw upon, but it is of the kind that requires management, and suffers from dilution.......

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SIR JAMES SIMPSON.* IF any one should doubt, before opening this book, whether Sir James Simpson was worthy of an elaborate biography, his doubt will be dissipated long before......