4 MAY 1872, page 19

A Cast Of The Dice.*

Tins novelette has a character of its own, and but for the rather conventional and forced intrusion into it of the comic element, would deserve to rank as a story of some power.......

Cheap School Books.* " My Dear Miss Pecksuiff," Said Mrs.

Todgers, " the gravy alone is enough to add twenty years to one's age, I do assure you." This always seemed to us one of the small touches that show true dramatic power, the......