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"MORE LITERARY HEREDITY.

Fresh literary fame seems to be pending for the Maurice Hewlett
family circle.

Mr. Robin Richards, the son-in-law of the famous novelist, is
about to appeal to fiction readers with his first novel."--_Daily
Paper_.

No more of the old-fashioned DARWIN and GALTON nonsense about fathers
and children.

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SEVEN WHITEBAIT.

Here and there in the drab routine of modern existence it is still
possible to catch an occasional glimpse of romance and courageous
living, and in the volume which lies before us as we write we are
given a generous measure of peril and adventure in faery seas forlorn.
_From Whitebait to Kipper: The Story of Seven Lives_, is the vivid
record of a family of herrings, set down (posthumously, it would seem)
with refreshing simplicity by Walter Herring, the youngest and perhaps
the most brilliant of the family. The story begins with the early
childhood of Walter, John, Isabel, Margaret, Rupert, Stéphanie and
little Foch, the last of whom was so named because he was born on the