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Agnes Wentworth. By E. Foxton. (Philadelphia: Lippincott. Lon- don: Triibner.)—If

we may judge of the merits of a tale of manners when the manners are not our own, we should praise this little book. The plot is of a kind which seems to have been coming into favour of late with the novel-writers. A younger sister growing up to console the noble-hearted lover for the faithlessness or blindness of the elder. Some of the scenes are particularly well drawn, notably that in which the frivolous mother is roused by the death of her child.

Those who study the higher logic at Oxford or elsewhere will find in Mr. Magrath's Selections from the Organon of Aristotle (Rivingtons) a complement, supplement, or substitute, as the case may be, for Tren- delenburg's well-known manual, Elementa Logices Aristotelece.