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The Forked Tongue. By R. L. De Havilland....

seems to us to be one of the attempts to acclimatise in England the Zola class of fiction. We have seldom read anything more repul- sive. A collection of the most odious men and......

An" Ill-regulated Mind." By Katharine Wylde. (blackwood...

Wylde has given us an original tale under this title, which may, with a little alteration, be applied to her book; for although it contains good scenes, vivid description, and......

Porrflv.—burley Bells, By Constance Mary Obbard (kegan...

Co.), is a poem constructed, we suppose, after the model of "Maud." It is a pity that Miss Obbard did not furnish her readers with an "argument," for really on reaching the end......

A Rich Man's Relatives. By R. Cleland. 3 Vols. (f.

V. White.) —There is an agreeable novelty about the circumstances of Mr. Cleland's story. The scene is laid in Canada. The "rich man" is a Southerner, who has found his way to......