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PIPS HYS DIARY.-The quaint minuteness of observation which distinguishes the diary of Mr. Samuel Pepys, the conscientious chronicler of Society's doings and the ways of the town in the days of Charles II., has been happily imitated by Mr. Percival Leigh, whose "Manners and Customs of ye Englyshe" of the present day are described with a gentle raciness, and a quiet shrewdness of humour, which breathe the very spirit of the honest Diarist. Mr. Richard Doyle's Drawings, illustrative of the "extracts," are graced by the refinement of conception and delicate fancy which have given him the first place amongst the caricaturists of the time, GEORGE DU MAURIER'S ILLUSTRATIONS. ENGLISH SOCIETY AT HOME. "SOCIETY PICTURES" FROM "PUNCH” BY GEORGE DU MAURIER. THESE "Society Pictures," sixty-three in number, are all printed from the original wood-blocks on real India paper, and mounted with the utmost care on a well finished Plate Paper. 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