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Relics. By Frances MacNab. (W. Heinemann.)—This is a pleasant book

of social sketches, connected together by a slender thread of story. There is little to be said about it, except that it is quite readable, not a book which one sits up to finish, but, on the other hand, not one that it is an effort to go on with. Miss MacNab's forte is in the delicacy of her outlines. From this point of view, the bustling wife of the rector is the least success- ful of her studies. She was too unbearable.