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Sacs et Parchemins. Par Jules Sandeau. Adapted and edited by

Eugene Pelissier. (Macmillan and Co.)—Sacs et Parehemins. Edited by B. Minssen. (Rivingtons.)—The first of these works is an abridged edition of Sandeau's witty and amusing novel, and the second contains its opening episode. The satire of Sacs et . Parchemins is of a kind which will never lose its freshness as long as the types of purse-proud vulgarity and worldliness at which it is directed exist among us. The very good-nature of the writer only makes his picture the more effective. Both editions are well and carefully annotated.