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Second-chance Continent

As If She Were Mine. By Alex Hamilton (Hut- chinson New Authors, 18s.) The Favourite. By Frangoise Mallet-Joris. Trans- lated by Herma Briffault. (W. H. Allen, 16s.) MARK TWAIN,......

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As NEWMAN'S biographer, Miss Trevor excites both one's envy and one's sympathy. Her subject is perhaps more continuously and variously interesting than any other man of his age;......