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Ready, 0 Really! Or, These Forty Years. By The Captain

of the Cumberland. (Sampson Low and Co.)—The Cumberland is a training ship for boys, for whose benefit the Captain tells the story of his life, and tells it in a way that must,......

Una ; Or, The Early Marriage. By Harriette Bowra. {hodder

and Stoughton.)—This is a didactic tale, which may, perhaps, be pronounced to he as successful and interesting as such tales commonly are. Una Randolph, daughter of a rich......

The Natural History Of Birds : A Popular Introduction To

Orni- thology, by Thomas Rymer Jones, F.R.S. (Warne and Co.). Notes on the Birds of Damara Land, and the Adjacent Countries of South- West Africa, by the late Charles John......

The Insidious Thief; A Tale For Ifundok Folks. By One

of Themselves. (Samuel Tinsloy.)—This is a temperance story, and at least as good as the average of that class of literature. We need not specify who or what is meant by " The......

The Pelican Papers. By James Ashcroft Noble. (il S....

is an interesting book, which we can best describe by comparing it with one with which our readers, we hope, are familiar, Mr. T. T. Lynch ' s " Memorials of Theophilas Tzinal.......

Pious Jeathnir, A Doleiid Tale. (w. P. Nimmo.)—it Is...

to say which is the worse part of this book, the doggrel rhyme, or tho scratchy, coarse illustrations with which it is furnished. What a strange notion of fun some people seem......