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Recent Novels.* The Legacy Of Cain Is By No Means

one of Mr. Wilkie Collins's beP+ novels ; but it remind us of one of his best novels, for in one respect its intellectual scheme is very similar to the intel- lectual scheme of......

Books.

SOUTHWARK AS IT WAS.* How pleasant is the sustaining enthusiasm of a genuine antiquary, who collects an infinite variety of details by diligent search in the lumber-rooms of......