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Shakespeare Scenes And Characters. A Series Of...

Text, selected and arranged by Professor E. Dowden. (Macmillan.)—This handsome volume has a character of sterling worth which books meant to lie on drawing-room tables do not......

'voris ; Or, The Three Creeds. By Dr. Maurice Davie.

3 vols. (Tinsley Brothers.)—Dr. Davies's hero begins as a Theist, becomes, by some process of thought which it is not easy to understand, a Roman Catholic, and ends as a Broad......

The Races Of Mankind. 2 Vols. By Robert Brown, M.a.

(Cassell and Co.)—These two handsome volumes (four, we should rather say, bound up in two) contain "a popular description of the characteristics, manners, and customs of the......

London Lyrics, By Frederick Locker (henry S. King And Co.),

appear in a "new edition, enlarged, and finally revised." It is a volume which does not now need any critic's commendation. Most people are agreed to accept the London Lyrics as......

Philosophical Treatise On The Nature And Constitution Of...

George Harris, LLD. 2 vols. (G. Bell and Sons.)--There can be no mistake that the author of these two formidable volumes is a man of wide reading. To judge from the foot-notes,......

Sonnets And Songs. By "proteus." (john Murray.)—the World...

enough to listen to a now singer, if he has anything to say, even though the language in which the thoughts may be clothed is some- what halting, not to say uncouth. What shall......