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The Last Of The Bushrangers. By F. A. Hare. (hurst

and Bla,ckett.)—There is a curious thing about this book. The date is thrown forward to 1892. For a serial this might pass; but why this foredating of an often-told tale ? It......

English Colonisation And The Empire. By A. Caldecott,...

Murray.)—Though called forth by the University Extension movement, this volume is not precisely a text-book for its examinations. It is specially written for those who cannot......

Growth Of Criminal Law In An.cient Communities. By...

Cherry. (Macmillan.)—In a course of six lectures compressed within a space of little more than a hundred pages, Professor Cherry traces historically the manner in which Criminal......

The Philippine Islands. By John Forman, F.r.g.s. (sampson...

and Co.)—Mr. Forman's long professional resi- dence in the Philippines has fully qualified him to write on the geo- graphical, social, and commercial, as well as on the......

Messrs. L. Prang And Co., Of Boston, U.s.a., Send Us

a variety of Christmas and New Year's booklets, containing many pleasing landscapes, with illustrative poems (not on the whole so good). The Spirit of the Pine, The Winds of the......

Fulcher's Pocket - Book, 1892. Edited By H. Pratt....

received the usual copy of this annual, one of the very few which are still published in the country. It contains, in addition to the usual memorandum-book and a quantity of......

Messrs. Marcus Ward And Co. Have Sent Us A Box

of Christmas and New Year's Cards, which are executed with their usual skill, and drawn with their usual excellent taste and feeling. As usual, also, the landscapes please us......