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Eastward Flo ! (Wells Gardner, Dorton, and Co.)—This magazine continues the useful career for which we heartily wish all prosperity. "Peter the Hermit" repeats in the plainest way his assertion that the police are bribed to wink at riot in the East-end public-houses. -" Wholesale bribery" is what he speaks of, and he says to the tem- perance advocates, " Watch these places, and you will collect such a mass of testimony for the next Licensing Session as must shut up a large proportion of these houses." At the same time, he urges young men of means and culture to come and work in the East. Mr. Horsley brings forward some startling facts about "Premature Marriages." Mr. G. Manville Fenn continues his story of " Kilfeather's," and the Rev. Frederick Langbridge a poem which is as good as anything which we have hitherto seen from his pen—perhaps better, " Sammy : a Very Sorrowful Ballad about Him and his Cart." There are other good things in this excellent number.
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