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reading it again, and as a whole, we retain our

old preference. There is something very smart about all that concern the hero's adventures in Hungary, and nothing better than the sketch of the prince-bagman, or bagman-prince, Gustave do Marsac, whom he supersedes as traveller to the house of Oppovich, a Bombastos with just the touch of real brilliancy and truth which Mr. Lever knows so well how to give. This,

and what goes with it, accounts for a very considerable part of the single volume of which the story consists, and, indeed, would carry off more very well. No one ought to find any difficulty in reading That Boy of Norcott's.