The sterile horrors of the burbs are overdocumented, to say the least, but Perrotta, an expert with precocious youngsters (Election), is never shrill and only slightly vicious in satirizing his infantilized grown-ups.

Mr. Marsden managed, by dint of swimming, to come in contact with the form, to which hemself and friend had previously fixed the cord and thrown overboard; but this, from its shape, would have proved, in all probability, but a doubtful means of escape, had he not, after a time, fallen in with a small ladder, which he affixed with the cord to the form, placing his leg between the stales, and resting his body, sometimes at full length, when the breakers had fallen on the form.

I add two letters to this class, under the title of anomalous, which are the Arabic qaf (incorrectly written g, in the Plate, instead of q,) and the Hebrew, or Arabic ain, which some suppose to be inarticulable by a European voice.

'There warn't no one near, except some one that was evidently a-callin' a dog somewheres out back of the gardings in the Park road.'