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Books.

MR. TROLLOPE'S SHORT TALES.* TROLLOPE'S characteristic power is not shown in anything -like a proportional degree in his shorter tales. It is a kind of power which needs space......

A Wife On Her Travels.-11i.

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."] Pontresina, September 14, 1867. SIR,—I didn't like to let Mamma and Sophy know, for they both doat on me, and it would have frightened them......