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Biographies of Eminent Persons. (Macmillan.)—It is scarcely needful to say

anything more of these biographies than to quote the description on the title-page,—" Reprinted from the Times." They are twenty in number, and cover a period of five years (1882- 1886). Darwin, Garibaldi, limey, Archbishop Tait, Gambetta, Prince Gortchakoff, Sexel, the Comte de Chambord, Chenery (editor of the Times), Sir Bartle Frere, Fawcett, Charles Gordon, Lord Cairns, Victor Hugo, General Grant, Sir Moses Montefiore, Lord Shaftesbury, Lord Strathnairn (Sir Hugh Rose), W. E. Forster, and Count Beust, are the twenty celebrities described, and the list of names is a sufficient guarantee of the interest of the volume.