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Half-Hours with the Best American Writers. Selected and Arranged by Charles Morrie. 4 vole. (Frederick Warne and Co.)— That these volumes contain much that is interesting, much, too, that will be fresh to moat English readers, need hardly be said. We miss one or two names. Stephens, the explorer of Yucatan, who had previously made a considerable reputation by his "Incidents of Travel" in Europe and the East, does not appear among Mr. Morrie's authors, though they number not far off two hundred and fifty: Yet he has some picturesque and some humorous passages, which would serve admirably for extracts. Fenimore Cooper appears in one passage only. There is actually nothing about " Natty Bumpo,' the finest of all his creations. It is to be wished that Mr. Morris had given his readers a key to his principle of arrangement. To us, we mast confess his four volumes are a " mighty mane" indeed. Yet doubtless one may dip into them with the strong probability of finding something well worth reading.
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