11 DECEMBER 1880, page 23

Magazines, Annuals, Etc.—we Have Received The Following...

the coming Christmas season :—The Magazine of Art, the frontispiece in which, "A Charge of Witchcraft," is a good specimen of the highest style of wood-ongraving.—No. 1 of......

Strictly Tied Up. 3 Vols. (hurst And Blackett.)—the...

of the plot is not a very complicated one. Mrs. Fertile, on her marriage, has her property very "strictly tied up," that is, in the usual way, to her and to the children that......

The Clerk Of Portwick. By George Manville Fenn. 3 Vols.

(Chapman and Hall.)—This novel begins with some pretty pictures of rural scenery. The rectory by the side of the trout-stream is an attractive scene, which impresses itself on......

We Have To Notice The Stately Library Edition, In Two

volumes, of Romota, by George Eliot. (Smith, Elder, and Co.) Outside, we have a dignified simplicity. The binding is without ornament, design, or even colour, plain calico, with......

Messrs. Marcus Ward And Co. Have Sent Us A Very

pretty selection of Christmas cards. Their birds, and dogs, and animals generally are beautiful, as well as their flowers ; and we confess that we prefer them to the......

De Is Rue's Pocket-books And Diaries For 1881 Show That

even in what seemed nearly perfect, there may be improvements, for the waist- coat pocket Red - Letter Calendar, enclosed in a sheath of white metal, is a very happy conception.......

Messra. Ward, Look, And Co. Have Published A New Edition

of the well-known Crwlen's Concordance, a work which has been liberally used by subsequent compilers, but never superseded. This, indeed, in the very nature of things, it could......

Desert Life. By B. Solymos (b. E. Falkonberg). (allen And

Co.) —It is extremely difficult to imagine the class of readers who can be supposed to take an intelligent interest in this weighty volume. The writer really has something to......