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DOMINIQUE. By. Eugene Fromentin. Translated by V. I. Longman. (Howe.

78. 6d.)—Dominique, which first appeared in 1862, occupies the same -sort of position in French as Cranford in English literature. There is, of course, as much. difference between Fromentin and Mrs. Geskell as there is between French and English provincial life. But both have the same delicacy of texture,- the same precision of style, the same Sureness of touch nn keyboard of deliberately restricted range. This 4s the first—and an almost perfect—English version °fa delight- ful minor. French elassie. ,