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Men of the Time. New edition. (Routledge.)—One has no right

to pick holes in a book of this kind, which professes to give an account of everybody who has ddue anything. It is produced with great labour, it is very cheap, and it contains a great deal of information. Perhaps the apportionment of apace is not always in unison with our pro-con- ceived notions, but there is sure to be a difference of opinion as to the merits and importance of our contemporaries. The publishers very properly abstain, as a rule, from an expression of opinion, and may be congratulated on this new edition of a useful work.