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An Irish Novel.*

To present a picture of the life of the Irish peasantry which shall be at once faithful to the original and intelligible to the chenille of the circulating libraries, is such a......

The Chinese Painted By Themselves— And Another.* The...

from the literary point of view, the more im- posing of the two works on China and the Chinese which we have bracketed together, is very lively, very amusing, and very......

• Mrs. Ewing's Books For Children.* In Mrs. Ewing, Children

and all child-lovers have lost one who was to many of them as a personal friend—unknown, except through her books, yet possessing that magnetic attraction granted to some......