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State Contentment : An Allegory. By Robert Desborongh....

and Publishing Company.)—" State Contentment" is a happy country, which the hero visits in a dream, where everybody is virtuous and well-off, the people having got rid of tho......

Fenton's Quest. By The Author Of " Lady Audley's Secret."

3 vols. (Ward, Lock and Tyler.)—We have always thought, and once or twice taken occasion to say, that 'sensationalism' is not by any means the worst fault of the modern novel,......