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The British Captives in Abyssinia. By Charles T. Bake. (Long-

mans.)—Dr. Beke's volume should be read by all who would make up their minds on the character of the Negus, or Emperor, Theodore, of whom we hare heard so mach, and on the imprisonment of the English Consul and his comrades, which has been ever ending and still beginning again. As an exposure of the conduct of our Foreign Office, the book is neither very light nor very pleasant, but it is none the less Important.