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Castle Avon. * Those Who Have Been Present At The Old

melodramas will recollect that the leading art of their authors was to make the most of lit- tle—" working up" some common incident into a "thrilling effect" by means of......

Taaffe's History Of The Order Of St.

Murmur orders have this defect for the purpose of the historian —their story is mostly contained in some larger event, and ma- terials are wanting to substitute particular or......

Books.

DOVETON'S REMINISCENCES OF THE BURMESE WA.R. * THESE reminiscences of the Burmese War of 1824-26 originally appeared in the Asiatic Journal. They are now republished in a more......