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But Lends Itself Only Too Easily To Ridicule. What Could

be more judicious than the remark that " Every home should have some musical instrument ? " Why not have followed it up by the sugges- tion that if you can have but one, you......

Novels.—stauley Brereton. 3 Vols. By W. H. Ainsworth....

Co.)—This, the last novel by the late Mr. Ainsworth, is not, as we fondly hoped, an historical romance, bright with the colour of a picturesque age, and flowing with the......