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Earl's Dene.*

THE fact that a novel is reprinted from Blackwood affords some guarantee of careful workmanship, of the absence of glaring faults, ■ Earl's Dent. By R. E. Francillon. 3 vole.......

Study Of History.*

PROFESSOR STUBBS was appointed to his chair on the unusual ground that he was master of the subject which he was called upon to teach. A critic, therefore, must be endowed with......