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A Strange Family. By C. Howard. 3 Vols. (skeet.)—is It,

we feel -compelled to ask, any pleasure to write, for it is certainly no pleasure to read, about the sayings and doings of such a set of people as Mr. or Mrs. Howard (we do not......

Peccavi ; Or, Geoffrey Singleton's Mistake. 3 Vols. By...

George Griffiths. (Newby.) —The task of supplying these columns at all events sharpens one critical faculty, that which discerns whether or no a book is readable,—the one,......

Old Times Revived. By Frank Trollope. (newby.)—" Old...

very hard to " revive ;" but it is tolerably easy to make lay-figures and put an ancient-looking armour and satin dresses on them, in fact, to produce something as like life as......

Too Much And Too Little Money. 2 Vols. By The

Author of "A Change of Luck." (Chapman and Hall.)—This novel is, we suppose, meant to be didactic, but we cannot say much for it in this character. On the whole, we gather that......