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Reports On The Natural History And Habits Of Salmonoids In

the Tweed and Its Tributaries. Published by authority of the Tweed Fishery Commissioners. (Blackwood.)—The Commissioners of the Tweed Fisheries drew up a certain number of......

Sporting Incidents In The Life Of Another Tom Smith....

and Hall.)—The other Tom Smith presupposed by this title-page (not this other Tom Smith, but the other other Tom Smith) is Thomas !Whe- t= Smith, whose life was published a......

The Vicar Of Southbury's Story. A Christmas Poem. By A

Poet. (Alfred W. Bennett.) A Wreath of Shamrocks. By John K. Carey (Leo). (Dublin, M‘Gee.)—More verse, and unluckily mere verse, though the author of the second volume writes......

Episodes Of Insect Life.*

" ACIIETA DOMESTICA"—who is " Acheta Domestic.a ?"—writes with elegance and grace, a certain glossy grace, the hot-pressed, second-hand grace of the shining green and gold......

The Tallants Of Barton. By Joseph Hatton. (tinsley...

average story, with too many characters, which are therefore faintly sketched ; too many incidents, which are therefpre often im- probable—the changing of children is a very old......

The Year - Book Of Facts In Science And Art. 1867. By

John Timbs, F.S A. (Lockwood.)—The industry of Mr. Thnba's scissors cannot be too highly commended. Scarcely a fact escapes their watchful snip. We seem to bo,jesting, but we......

Current Literat Ure.

Joyce Dormer's Story. By Julia Goddard. (Bradbury and Evans.)— Miss Goddard has written many stories, we believe, yet this one leaves on us the impression of being a first......

Rout/edge's Readyreckoner. By John Heaton. (routledge.)...

to contain 63,000 calculations. We have not counted them, and it is needless to say that we have not tested many of them. Of course the value of such a book lies in its......

A Travers Champs. Flitneries. Par Le Chevalier De...

Chevalier de Chatelain is well known as a translator of English poetry. He is also, we believe, an Anglomane. If we remember rightly he was some time back a candidate for the......

May And Her Friends. By E. M. B. (f. Warne.)—a

girl's story, rather too long, and studiously moral. We can recommend it, however, to the class which considers Miss Yonge the greatest of novelists, and indeed to all who are......