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The Sorrowful Ending Of Noodledoo, With The Fortunes And...

of her Neighbours and. Friends. By Charles Bennet. (Sampson Low, Son, and Marston..)—A series of nonsensical pictures with a still more non- sensical text. We do not believe......

The Corm:1tm Gallery.*

THE publishers of the Cornhill Magazine lead the van of Christmas picture-books with a splendid volume, containing selections from the illustrations which have from time to time......

Poems Of The War. By George H. Boker. (sampson Low,

Son, and Marston.)—This volume was originally published in Boston, Massa- chusetts, and consists of martial poems dealing with the chief events of the American War. It is......

Good Words. Edited By N. Macleod, D.d. 1864.—the Twelve...

numbers are now before us, bound up in purple cloth and gilt- edged, so as to make a very sightly volume. It contains the whole of Mrs. Wood's spirited story, Oswald Cray, Dean......

Gaspar 7'renchard. By Bracebridge Hemyng, Of The Middle...

Three volumes. (John Maxwell and Co.)—Why a barrister who happens to write a novel should put his profession after his name on the title-page, unless it be to give his readers......

The Leisure Hour. The Sunday At Home. 1864. It Is

not necessary for us to say anything on the character of those two old friends, but there are evident signs that the conductors are abreast of tho times. The coloured prints are......

Current Literature.

Dublin University Magazine. December, 1864. This number com- pletes Mr. J. S. Le Fanu's novel of Uncle Silas. No one can deny the power with which that mysterious character is......

The Lifeboat, By R. M. Ballantyne. With Illustrations....

and Co.)—Any lad who likes to read of shipwrecks will have a feast here, for the author has given him at least half a dozen— besides a history of the lifeboat, the Lifeboat......

The Art Journal December, 1864. The Engravings For The Month

consist of Mr. Goodall's Hunt the Slippery Turner's Bligh Sands, and Mr. Durham's Go to Sleep. Whether the last of these is or is not a fit subject for sculpture may be doubted,......