COCKADES. By Meade Minnigerode, (Putnam. 7s, 6d.) This is a
good rattle of a story. The scene is laid in America, a few years after the French Revolution. It is Imported that the Dauphin of France is still alive, and plots and .counterplots, abductions and rescues, centre round the person of a .youth who may or may not be the Dauphin himself. The French secret police, the monarchists, American democrats, and the dark power of Spain are all involved. The denouement must not be given away, but we may say that the young man himself, who is the centre of all this attentinte has no wish for a throne and the cares of kingship : Amhis heart he desirea nothing better than to be a good erican citizen and enjoy the _love of a Creole lady. In spite of this, Big Bill. Thompson will probably be after Mr. l'ffinn1gerode's blood': he almost accuses George Washington of being " class-conscious.".
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