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The Siege of Constantinople. By C. R. Eaglestone. (Tinsley BrOthets.)—This

is an "historical romance," which the special interest now felt in its subject may tempt the reader to take up. He will flha the story of the fall of the city and the last Constantine told fairly well, but not so well as it has been told before. And he will also find the tale of the unfortunate loves of a Varangian guardsman and an Ottoman maiden, sister to Sultan Mahommed.—We have no particular induce- ment to offer to the reader for making acquaintance with Adirondack Tales, by W. H. M. Murray. (Dickinson.)—Chimes : a Tale for the Youngsters, by Harleigh Seveme (Griffith and Farran), is a tale of a little boys' school. We own to having found it dull, and in our judgment not improved by the " grown-up " moral which is appendea to it.