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Rex Singleton. By Mrs. Lysaght. (Wells Gardner, Darton, and Co.)—This

is an ambling sort of story, with the boy-hero of the familiar type, a shocking example in the shape of a tutor who drinks, an extraordinary recovery of long-lost parents, and the other properties of didactic fiction. There is no harm in the book, and quite possibly there may be good ; but it will scarcely please the readers for whom it is presumably meant.