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The Red Dragon, for August and September. (Daniel Owen and Co.; W. Kent and Co.)—In these numbers of the Red Dragon, a maga- zine which devotes itself chiefly to Welsh subjects, Miss Dill wyn has began a Welsh story which promises at once a certain amount of sensation (as a story should) and a lively delineation of character. Miss Dillwyn is always effective when she describes girls of high spirits and out-of-doors habits, as she does in the opening chapters of this tale. She also gives us a sketch of a grins - and cruel Welshwoman,—the foster-mother of the evil genius of the story,—which is executed with much force and a rather. painfulamount of realism. We grlatly fear that David Ivor, whose twenty-first birthday is celebrEted in the September number, is likely to be soon cut off by the machinations of his evilly disposed cousin. But perhaps we may be yielding too easily to the evident intention of the authoress to inspire us with fear for his fate. The account of the festivities at Nant Olchfa is vely lively. The paper on "John Dyer," in the September number, is a good one, and the paper called "Thief or Ghost P" in the August number, is entertaining.
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