lover. The climax comes in an adventure which is nearly
real difficulty of her task. We are not permitted to see the experiment at work. The couple are separated after a very few days by the violent being tragical, when Mr. Arbuton saves Kitty from a ferocious bull-dog. How truly funny, by the way, is Kitty's almost irre- interference of the lady's friends, who have the law at their backs, the bridegroom having imprudently put himself into itspower. Then he sistible disposition to laugh, though it was indeed no laughing disappears,—for ever, the author would have us believe. Of course we matter, at the thought (the dog was made to leave his hold by
the application of a cooper's branding-iron) that the "dog would carry know better than that ; if he is really dead, what is the good of the about with him on his nose, as long as he lived, the monogram that three volumes? The most inexperienced reader will think, or be sure, marks the cooper's casks as holding a certain number of gallons." At in spite of the strongest assertions, which are repeated in various ways, last, Mr. Arbuton's trial comes ; he meets some fine Boston friends, and that he will turn up again at the right time. Perhaps it would be is ashamed, and cannot help showing that he is ashamed of Kitty. How
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