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Thornleigh House. By W. Edward Chadwick. (Sutton, Drowley, and Co.)—This

is a story with which no reasonable person can find fault, except, indeed, it be to question the soundness of the political economy. A mysterious stranger comes into a place where the mills are working to no great profit, it would seem, and proposes to build another, with the beneficent object of giving employment to the workpeople. But would there not be over- production P And over-production, even if the arrangement by which wool is to be got at cost-price in Australia were to last for ever, cannot go on. But whether the stranger made his mill pay or not, he won a very admirable wife ; and the story of his sayings and doings may be read with interest.