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Memoirs Of The Empress Marie Louise. Translated From The...

of Jonbert de Saint-Arnaud. (Remington and Co.)—We cannot think that there is room in the world for such a book as this, particularly as this volume, a large octavo of more than......

Campaigning In A Strange Land : An Election Story. (d.

Stott.) —Elections are bad enough ; but they mast be endured, at least till we get the strong man who is to turn the talkers out of doors. Bat why must we have their horrors......

The Master Passion. By Florence Marryat. 3 Vols. (f. V.

White and Co.)—This is a very old story told again with a certain change in the circumstances. A young wife in the Black Country leaves her husband in a fit of rage, and leaves......

We Have Received The Third And Fourth Volumes Of Cassell's

Popular Gardening. Edited by D. T. Fish. (Cassell and Co.)—Mr. Fish, who is assisted in one of these volumes by twelve, and in the other by thirteen collaborateurs, continues to......

Historic Boys. By E. S. Brooke. (blackie And Son.)—there Is

some interesting reading in this book ; but we are inclined to think that the author might have made more, by a judicious selection, out of his subject. An excellent chapter......

Gathered In The Gloaming : Poems Of Early And Later

Years. By T. Westwood. (Printed at the Chiswick Press.)—Mr. Westwood is an "old hand" at verse-making, and it is, we believe, more than thirty years ago since he published his......

The Curate's Wife. By J. E. Panton. 2 Vols. (redway.)—thie

is a sad story of a good woman's heart given to a man who was un- worthy of her, and broken by trouble and neglect. There is some skilful painting of country life in it. Meta,......