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The English Catalogue of Books, 1S H - 1900. (Sampson Low, Marston,

and Co. 30s. net.)—This volume (the sixth of • tin series to which it belongs) gives an alphabetical list of "the works published in Great Britain and Ireland," and of the "principal works published in America." The space of time included is three years. With the appendices, giving various series and sets of publications, &c., the volume has nearly eight hundred pages. Some of the entries are double (author and sub- ject), but the total is almost appalling. But what are we to expect when we find under one name (as author) eighteen books containing in all five thousand four hundred and two pages ? This should rival Lope de Vega. The "English Catalogue" is indispensable for librarians, booksellers, and others similarly employed.