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Angio.stazon Britain, By Grant Allen, B.a. (society For...

Knowledge), is a not unsuccessful attempt to give "a brief sketch of Britain under our early English conquerors, rather from the social than the political point of view." Such......

Health Lectures For The People. Second Series. (ifacuiven...

Edinburgh.)—It is satisfactory to learn from the preface to this admirable set of eight lectures that each of them was listened to, with appreciative attention, by two thousand......

Plutarch's Life Of Thernistocles. By Rev. Hubert A....

, LL.D. (Macmillan.)—It is refreshing to come upon to a piece of work NO thoroughly well done as this. Dr. Holden has done a great service to English schoolmasters, and to......

The Quatrains Of Omar Khayyrim. Translated By E. H....

late of the Bengal Civil Service. (Trilloner.)—This volume, which forms one of Messrs. Triibner's "Oriental Series," is a literal and faith- ful version of the rebel or quatrain......

Private Theatricals. By An Old Stager. (w. H. Allen And

Co.)— This practical guide to the home stage is neither much better nor much worse than its older rivals, and is, perhaps, more noticeable as a sign of the increasing popularity......