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Aunt Judy's Magazine, for August. (George Bell and Son.)—" We and the World" and "Mother Molly" make fair progress, though they are not at the most interesting stages. Mrs. Ewing gives us a very beautiful description of the Southern seas, as her heroes near Bermuda ; and a grand one of a tropical storm, that would not be pleasant to encounter, but delightful to have encountered. She rather misses a point in the Irishman's letter to his mother, which might have been made so infinitely humorous ; and the authoress of "Mother Molly" should have made much more of her wild man of Dartmoor. The " Cats " paper is full of curious history and inter- esting anecdote, of which the most touching is a tale, told by Madame Michelet, of the mutual love of her father and his " mangy-furred " eat, " Mocquo." We are not surprised to find some lines to the memory of the ill-fated Prince Imperial, but sentiment altogether- forgets itself, when he is described as "a toiling pilgrim, card betimes to rest."
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