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The New Scottish Dictionary.*

THE Scottish Dictionary which, whatever be its merits or its fate, will always remain as a monument to the industry and energy of its publisher, is virtually brought to a close......

Of Technical And Scientific, Works, We Have To...

ways and Locomotives, lectures delivered at the School of Military Engineering at Chatham, in 1877, by John Wolfe Barry and Frederick J. Bramwell, F.R.S. (Longmans.)—The Water......

Current Literature.

The Catiline and Tugurtha of Sallust. Translated into English by Alfred W. Pollard, B.A. (Macmillan and Co.)—A well-written and intelligent essay, which is only too short, on......

Maritime Discovery.*

To compress into two volumes the whole history of maritime discovery is no small undertaking, and must have required an amount of research and literary labour such as can be......

International Trade. By Sir John D. Phear....

deals here with the problem which is at first sight so per- plexing, the constant preponderance of imports over exports in our Trade Balance-sheet. It looks as if we are always......