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To The Government Of The Two Neighbouring States. The Object

of the Two Knaves and a Queen. By Frank Barrett. 3 vols. (Tinsley Prince, whoever he may be, will naturally be to make the supreme Brothers.)—This novel, like many others,......

Aces In The Literature Of Fiction, To One Of "

Holme Lee's" novels. They are always carefully executed, for though she writes much, she does not so overtask her pen as to be obliged to hurry its work. And thoroughly national......

The Story Of Avis. By Elizabeth Stuart Phelps....

Phelps has before this written so well, that it is a great disappoint- ment to find her sending out a book which is, in many places, as nearly unreadable as a really able writer......

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Tense ; The Attention Is Roused And Hold; In Fact,

the latter scenes are Laxton's Builders' Price - Book, 1878, 12mo tSlmpkin & Co.) 4/0 genuinely dramatic. The end of the " Two Knaves" is a scene skilfully conceived and......

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