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Recent Novels.*

DR. CONAN DOYLE'S stories are always welcome, if only for their manliness and hearty geniality. In Rodney Stone he has essayed to give us a picture of what he very justly calls......

Eighteenth-century Pleasure-gardens.* London, Insatiable...

bouring villages, where a hundred and fifty years ago the citizens made holiday under spreading trees, and escaped from the narrow, noisy streets into the quiet of the country.......