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Sons.)—The book begins with "An Eventful Drive," from which arises

the main complication of the story, to be shortly afterwards combined with another, "On the Ice." The moral of the tale is

developed wholesomely and naturally out of incidents which are -well told, and supply a fair quantum of amusement. With the further help of "Mr. Spooner Green's Perplexity," and the other illustrations, juvenile readers will, no doubt, fled themselves isteretsbed down to the end of the story, whit% occupies 200 moderate-sized pages.