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French Examination Papers (d. Nutt), Is, Perhaps, A...

title. The book contains a collection of papers in French grammar and literature, including passages for translation into and from French, set at the University of London, at......

Chambers's Historical Readers, Book Iii. (w. And R....

a series of short chapters on the History of England, from A.D. 1327 down to the Revolution of 1688. It will be found useful in schools, and its simple, easy style will......

Regimental Legends. By J. S. Winter. (chatto And...

more volumes of soldiering stories, by the author of Cavalry Life, to which the above remarks equally apply. In "A Regimental' /Esthete," there is a welcome reminiscence of the......

A History Of The English Language And Literature, By Dr.

F. J. Bierbanm (G. Weiss, Heidelberg ; Triihner and Co., London), con- tains a great deal of useful information in a very small compass. Considering that it is the work of a......

Clare Stellar. A Novel. By Mrs. J. Galbraith Lunn....

and Co.)—The chief fault that we have to find with this book is that ibis called a novel. This is a misnomer ; the story is one merely of and for children. It is rather too......

Clare Weisman. By The Author Of "pansies And Asphodel."...

and Co.)—The " Clare " of this story is a man, and a sculptor. A great deal of sin, sorrow, death, parting, and unmerited misfortune is piled up in the one small volume to which......

Samos And Samian Coins, By Percy Gardner, M.a. (macmillan...

(1o.), is a reprint of a most valuable article, which many of our readers may have noticed in the Numismatic Chronicle last year. That ibis scholarlike, learned, and exhaustive,......

The Gallynipper In Yankeeland. By Himself. (tinsley...

not the advantage of knowing what a gallynipper is, but this slim volume affords internal evidence that a great deal of vulgarity, slang, and impudent imitation of certain......

P. Vergili Maronis Opera. By T. L. Papillon, M.a. (clarendon

Press Series.)—The object of this edition is to provide something intermediate in quantity between those of Conington and Professor Kennedy. The first volume contains the text,......

In Locke On Words, With Introduction And Notes By F.

Ryland, M.A. (Sonnenschein and Co.), some readers probably will fail to re- cognise a reproduction of the third part of John Locke's "Essay concerning the Haman Understanding."......

A Preparatory Book Of German Prose, By Hermann B. Boisen,

A.M. (Ginn, Heath, and Co., Boston, U.S.), has been added to Martha's Vineyard series of text-books of modern languages. It is well calculated to introduce the youthful student......