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Madame De Lamballe.*

THIS is a sympathetic study of a supremely touching figure in French - history, a martyr to loyalty and friendship in whose innocent life nothing had ever happened to merit one......

Two Books For Anglers-t It Is Often Wrongly Supposed That

there is nothing new worth writing about fishing. But, in truth, the subject is not nearly exhausted ; and if it were, anglers would always read with pleasure the trite thoughts......

Novels.

THE HERMIT AND 1 111k, WILD WOMAN.* Mits. WHARTON'S indisputable talent perhaps reached its high.- water mark in her previous collection of short stories, The Descent of Man.......