25 SEPTEMBER 1875, page 16

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ABOUT a year and a half ago we noticed in these pages a tale by Mrs. Newman called Too Late, which seemed to us to have a clever plot and well-conceived characters,—plot......

Books.

BALFE'S BEGINNINGS.* STRUGGLES with fate are fine things, and their records, sup- plied by the majority of the biographers of famous or re- markable men, are held to be very......