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Fairy Records. By Caroline Moscrop. (chapman And...

are absurd, without being really fanciful. Sometimes the " fairy " element is not assimilated at all with the tale in which it appears. In the first "record," for instance, we......

Sketches Of The South And !vest. By Henry Deedes....

Mr. Deedes gives us here the impression made upon him by nearly a year's travel and residence in the United States. He appears to have gone with and to have retained strong......

The Club Magazine. No. I. September.—here Is A New Magazine,

compiled, we are told, by the "Amateur Authors' Club." The intro- duction is not particularly wise, but it makes one modest request which it is impossible to refuse. "You,......

Ropes Of Sand.*

Ma. LANCASTE11 seems to have profited to some extent by the remarks made about his former novel. His characters now are more in drawing. They are still the merest caricatures,......

Current Literature.

A large circle of readers will welcome a Second Series of Sermons Preached in Manchester. By Alexander Maclaren. (Macmillan.)— These are very remarkable discourses, without any......