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The Annual Register for 1889. (Rivingtons.)—The volume is divided, as

usual, into two parts. Part I. gives " English History," with a supplementary chapter for Scotland and' Ireland, and a subdivision in eight chapters devoted to " Foreign and Colonial History," an appendix, if it may be so called, summarising in some thirty pages the narrative of the Parnell Commission. Part II. supplies "A Chronicle of Events ;" a "Retrospect of Science, Literature, and Art in 1889 ; " an "Obituary of Eminent Persons ; " and an index. So far as we have examined the volume, the work seems well done, the "Retrospect of Literature," especially, being fairly comprehensive.