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The Magazines.

Fraser has a valuable though slightly dogmatic paper on the treatment of habitual criminals, in which the writer accepts Lord Kimberley's Bill merely as an instalment of reform.......

Current Literature.

Mad: a Story of Dust and Ashes. By George Manville Fenn. 3 vols. (Tinsley.)—The book deserves, on the whole, something better than the very strange and we may say unattractive......