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The Unit Of Imperial Federation. By H. Mortimer Franklyn....

Sonnensohein and Co.)—The author thinks that the Imperial Institute is destined to produce the greatest and happiest results. "The influence of its promoter, his acknowledged......

Caterina. By The Author Of "lauterdale." 3 Vols. (hurst And

Blackett.)—There are several threads of interest in this novel, yet somehow the whole fails to be interesting, at least in any absorbing way. There are many people in the action......

A Leader Of Society. By Mrs Alexander Fraser. 3 Vols.

(F. V. White and Co.)—The title which Mrs. Fraser gives to her heroine and her novel is evidently an arriese pensee. Heine Ferrara's career as a 'leader of society" does not......

Keraban The Injlesible. By Jules Verne. (sampson Low And Cm)

—This story in contained in two volumes, which bear respectively the titles of "The Captain of the ' Guidara ' " and " Scarpante the Spy." Keraban, the hero of the whole tale,......

The Author Of Such Lines Shows At Least Promise.—poems. By

George Martin. (Dawson Brothers, Montreal.)—A volume of verse from Canada deserves at least the welcome accorded to rare visitants; but we cannot honestly award it higher praise......

The Game Of Logic. By Lewis Carroll. (macmillan And Co.)—

We cannot honestly say that we find this amusing, or even easy. But what would you have ? Logic does not admit of being the first, and to some minda can hardly be the second. We......