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The Rajah,'s Second Wife. By Head= Hill. (Ward, Lock, and Bowden.)—Thia is a distinctly powerful story. The Rajah is an educated Hindoo, who has come over to England to read for the Bar, and who succeeds unexpectedly to the throne of a small State. Meanwhile, he has married an English girl. Possible complica- tions arising from an earlier marriage, contracted, Hindoo fashion, in infancy, are suggested. These do not come to any serious result ; but they suggest a circumspection in this matter, which English girls and English parents do not always exercise. The main interest of the tale, however, centres in the striking personality of John Deacon, a missionary, who has been a suitor for the hand of the Rajah's wife, and who is now under orders to commence his work in the very city where her lot is cast. This situation is developed with no little skill, being made to subserve the more important interest of the struggle of the faith which John Deacon preaches, to establish itself in Thalwa. We can speak very highly of Mr. Headon Hill's treatment of his subject.
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