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The Talk Of The Town.* Tins Novel Gives No Token

of its authorship. Its title is commonplace and unattractive, and, as far as we can see, wholly inappropriate. Generally it wants that appearance of expecting a success which of......

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Chapters on Man. By C. Staniland Wake. (Trubuer.)—Mr. Wake travels in his 320 pages over a very wide range of subjects. So moderate an amount of space is but little to devote to......