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A Strange Marriage. By Helen Falconer. 2 vols. , (Remington' and

Co.)—It is not easy-to say anything-more about this novel than that the title is well deserved by the contents. To speculate whether the strangeness passes the bounds of possibility—probability need not be discussed—would be to reveal the plot, and the plot is everything. Letit sofa= to say that it is a readable story, that,there is no harm in. it, and that it might very well have been compressed.into.one volume.