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  Opals From a Mexican Mine

  By GEORGE DE VALLIERE. i2mo, cloth, richly bound, $1.25.

  Are indeed literary gems. * * * We are glad to have found these Mexicanopals; they are to us gems of value and we thank the author.--BostonTimes.

  Now and then a tale flames like a field of poppies in windlesssunshine--such, for instance, as these Mexican tales which have justappeared bearing an unfamiliar name.--The Bookman, New York.

  In them all, no worse local solecism than the dropping of a fewaccents. The like hardly happens twice in a decade. * * * Areunmistakably interesting.--Critic (New York).