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 FICTION.

"The work of an artist who has in him something of the large liberal heart of his master—Mr. Dickens: it is a substantial work carefully invented and carefully written, with regard not merely to neat easy periods, but to the quality of thought expressed; and as a whole the clever elaboration of a manly sense of what is good and noble."—Examiner.

"A welcome book—it may be taken up again and again, and its pages paused over, for the enjoyment of the pleasant touches and suggestive passages which they contain."— Athenæum.