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The White 'Virgin. By G. Manville Fenn. 2 vols. (Chatto

and Windus.)—This is a striking story, with all the characteristics which we are accustomed to see in Mr. Penn's fiction. The "white virgin 'S is a mine with which the fortunes of the hero and the heroine are inextricably mixed up. The reader will follow the windings of a skilfully contrived plot with unfailing interest, and will be glad at the end, if he is acquainted with the common run of modern novels, to find in Mr. Fenn an old-fashioned believer in poetical finishes and happy endings. We cannot but think that the pitch to which Sturgess carries his evident audacity is almost beyond belief.