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Oswald Cray. By Mrs. Wood. (a. And C. Black.)—quite Equal

to the average of Mrs. Wood's novels, very readable, very clever, and slightly improbable. The plot requires us to believe that a surgeon in high practice had on the same day to......

The Lugoldsby Legends. Illustrated By George Cruikshank,...

John Ten.nieL (Bentley.)—An edition de luxe of rhymes the public demand for which appears to be insatiable. It is of course magnificently got up, and the illustrations are to......

Crosspatch, The Cricket, And The Counterpane. By Frances...

Illustrated by Thomas Hood. (Griffith and Farran.)—A pretty book of whimsical stories, which will delight little children who are still in the nursery, though their elder......

Longfellow's Hyperion, Illustrated With Twenty-four...

William Bennett.)—If any one desires a test of the weakness as well as the strength of photography regarded as a mode of book-illustration, he cannot do better than buy this......

Illustrations To Bunyan's Progress. By Frederick T. Shields.

(Simpkin, Marshall, and Co.)—A very charming volume, perhaps rather more extravagant in the matter of margin to the illustrations than is necessary. The letter-press consists......

Facts And Fancies In Prose And Verse. By Jenny Wren.

(Hall, Smart, and Allen.)—This lady was fortunate enough to marry a printer, from whose honeymoon fondness she obtained the publication of this book. As she promises not to do......

Books Received.

Bradbury and Evans.—Panoh's Pocket Book for 1865. Sampson Low, Son, and Co.—History of Lace, by Mrs. Bury Palliser. Groombridge and Sons.—A Bunch of Keys. Jackson. Walford, and......