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Nortondale Castle. (S. Tinsley.)—This would be a fairly good story,

were it not haunted by the ghost of the irrepressible "Claimant." Here the agent of a property makes his own son personate a deceased baronet (baronets seem in an especial way to be victims of this kind of imposture), to whom, by an old family arrangement, the daughter of the owner of Nortondale Castle has been promised. This is really a little too much. And it provokes one the more, as the preface makes a sort of claim for the story that it is a record of facts. Otherwise the tale is well written, and the characters natural.