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Within The Maze.* How Grateful Mr. Bruce Will Be To

Mrs. Henry Wood for laying her finger at once, in her own dexterous way, on so weak a point as Portland Prison, hitherto deemed so strong ! It appears now that no less than four......

Graymorth : A Story Of Country Life. By Carey Hazelwood.

3 vols. (Samuel Tinsley.)—The country scenes and persons are excellently described, but we cannot say much for the story, which is inconsequent and disjointed to a strange......

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and Daldy.)—Mr. Shillito speaks modestly of his book as a "scanty instal- ment" of a long-promised work. The volume is indeed over slender to contain a full annotation even on......