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Offspring Of Thought In Solitude. Modern Essays. By W. Carew

Hazlitt. (Reeves and Turner.)—Twenty.seven essays, none of great length, and few of striking interest, make up this volume. Several of the papers might afford welcome reading,......

Captain Musoftr's Rambles In Alpine Lands. By Colonel G. B.

Malleson. (W. H. Allen and Co.)—Under the name of " Musafir " (the Persian word for " traveller "), Colonel Malleson describes his experiences of journeyings made some years ago......

In Menceries Of Canada And Scotland (sampson Low And Co.),

the Marquis of Lorne publishes " Verses on Canadian Subjects," " Verses chiefly from Highland Stories," and "Speeches and Addresses" delivered by him during the period of his......

Aids To Reflection, And Confessions Of An Inquiring...

Samuel Taylor Coleridge. To which are added his Essays on Faith and the Book of Common Prayer, &c. New edition, revised. (George Bell and Sons.)—It will suffice to call......

Sketches Of Bird Life. By James Edmund Harting. (w. H.

Allen and Co.)—Mr. Harting bases his sketches on "twenty years obser- vations of the haunts and habits" of birds. He treats in order of between thirty and forty kinds of birds,......