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We have received a new edition (the 76th) of Low's

Handbook to the Charities of London. (Charles II. Sell. ls.)—One hardly likes to make any kind of selection where so many admirable in- stitutions are in question ; but the magnitude, the success, and the manifest benefit of Dr. Barnardo's Homes seem to call for a word There are 9,044 orphan or destitute children being trained, and trained, if wo may judge of the future from the past, to good citizenship, in these beneficent homes.