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Jules Slmon's "workman Of Eight Years Old."*

THREE editions in the course of a few months of M. Jules Simon's new work show the interest which it has aroused. It is perhaps the most striking, and with L'Ouvribv, the best......

The Legendary Ballads Of England And Scotlard. Compiled...

by John S. Roberts. (Warne and Co.)—There are about two hundred ballads in this collection, and it comprises, all or nearly all, that arc most popular and deserve to be so. The......

Current Literature.

Anecdotes of the Upper Ten Thousand. By the Hon. Grantley F. Berkeley. Two vols. (Bentley.)—We are sorry to hear that on the publication of Mr. Grantley Berkeley's former work......