the Heighth, when he was in Canterbury, took the bones,
which they was laid beneath, out on the green, and had them burned. With
them he took the 'oly shrine, which it and bones is here no longer."

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Fiction.

"The Lady with the Rubies." Translated from the German of E. Marlitt by
Mrs. A.L. Wister. Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott Company.

"Barbara Heathcote's Trial." By Rosa Nouchette Carey. Philadelphia: J.B.
Lippincott Company.

"The Bar Sinister. A Social Study." New York: Cassell & Co.

"Pine-Cones." By Willis Boyd Allen. Boston: D. Lothrop & Co.

"An Old Maid's Paradise." By Elizabeth Stuart Phelps. Boston: Houghton,
Mifflin & Co.

In spite of all the clever pleas urged by the lovers of realism for
realistic novels, it is easy enough to see that the mass of readers are
just as much in love as ever with a high romanticism, and Miss Marlitt's
stories still retain the strong hold they first took of the popular
heart. The success of fiction comes from the fact that it supplies a
want existing in most people's minds: lively incidents to awaken and
stimulate the fancy, a touch of mystery to give a thrill of pleasing
fear, sharply diversified characters impelled by strong motives which
insure a lively conflict of passions,--all these are what the average
novel-reader demands, and finds in Miss Marlitt's works. A great
rambling German house, with suites of disused apartments shut away from
sunshine and air and haunted by vanished forms and silent voices, while
its open rooms are tenanted by a nest of gentlefolks of all degrees of
relation,--some united by love, and others at swords'-points,--offers a
lively field for the romancer; and such is the scene in "The Lady with
the Rubies." "Belief in the Powers of Darkness will never die so long as
poor human hearts love, hope, and fear," is the moral, so to speak, of
the book; and the author has used with good effect this vein of
superstition which "makes the whole world kin." Little Margarete's
encounter with the family spectre, her flight from home, her lonely and
terrifying night, are touchingly described; and, in fact, the book is
full of pretty child-pictures, which enhance the pleasantness and charm
of the love-story. Few of Miss Marlitt's books possess more interest and
diversity than "The Lady with the Rubies;" and, as usual with Mrs.
Wister's work, it is well and gracefully translated.

Given a family of girls we