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How I Rose in the World. 2 vols. (Skeet.)—The author

of this story has not yet gone through the same process as his hero, and we are afraid ho will find his task quite as difficult. We may fairly infer from his style, from the crudity of his invention, and the laxity of his composition that he is a young writer. The mistakes he makes, par- ticularly on points of legal practice, bear out this view. And as we do not wish to be too hard on a tyro, we can only hope that he will live and learn.