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Messrs. Cassell have published another set of their "People's Library"

(8d. net cloth, and Is, ed. net leather, per vol.), an excellent series so well established in public favour amongst various formidable rivals that it is not necessary to do more than give particulars of its continued activity. In these fifteen volumes we find, of established classics, Swift's Gulliver's Travels ; Dramatic Works of R. B. Sheridan (containing, besides the three well-known comedies, St. Patrick's Day, The Duenna, A Trip to Scarborough, Pizarro, with the "Verses to the Memory of Garrick"); Essays and Lays of Ancient Rome, by Lord Macaulay; On the Origin of Species, by Charles Darwin ; Our Village, by Mary Mitford ; and A Wonder Book, and Tanglewood Tales, by Nathaniel Hawthorne. In fiction there are Sir Walter Scott's Talisman ; Marryat's Masterman Ready ; Lever's Charles O'Malley ; Thackeray's Vanity Fair; Wuthering Heights, by Emily 13rontii ; Harold, the Last of the Saxon Kings, by Lord Lytton; The Three Mtdshiprnen and Peter the Whaler, by W. H. G. Kingston and Henry Kingsley's Ra re nshoe.