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Tales. — Pity 'tis, 'tis True : A Tale Of Monaco. By

" Zitto." (Remington.)—We need hardly say that the chief subject of "A Tale of Monaco" is the gaming-table, its fascinations and its perils. " Zitto " combines with this another......

Recollections Of The Last Half-century. By Count Orsi....

and Co.)—Count Orsi's " Reoolleetions " are chiefly concerned with the early days of Napoleon III. He went to America on a mission to extract from the ex-King Joseph funds which......

Poeray. — The Prophecy Of St. Oran, And Other Poems. By...

Blind. (Newman and Co.)—Oran (whom we can hardly suppose to have been canonised) was one of the companions of St. Columba, and overpowered by the charms of a beautiful heathen......