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Recent Novels.* Mb. Norris's Stories Owe Their...

gifts and graces which have often been enumerated in these • (1.) Billy Bellew. By W. E. Norris. 2 vols. London : Chatto and windup. —(2.) Not Counting the Cost. By " Tasma." 3......

Professor Ransome's "history Of England."*

THIS is a really valuable book. In one volume of quite con- venient size, though containing rather over a thousand pages, we have the story of our national life and......