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School-books.

Of the three volumes, The Merchant of Venice, edited by A. W. Verity (Cambridge University Press), and the same play, edited by H. L. Withers (Blackie and Son), and Henry IV.,......

The Farbe Islands. By J. Russe]l-jeaffreson. (sampson Low...

7s. 6d.)—Mr. Russell-Jeaffreson has travelled much in Northern regions,—Iceland, Greenland, Spitzbergen, &c., and now has added the Faroe Islands to his list of acquaintances.......

Byeways. By Robert Lichens. (methuen And Co.)—here We...

stories, most of them of a somewhat weird kind. When the writer would relieve the strain with a little humour, as in " A Boudoir Boy," we do not know that we are much better......

Notes On Political Economy. By A New Zealand Colonist....

and Co.)—We are not concerned to discuss the questions which the " Colonist " treats in this volume. What he says about them has the special interest of being said from his own......

John Gilbert, Yeoman. By R. G. Soans. (frederick Warne And

Co.) — This " Romance of the Commonwealth " is a fair specimen of the historical tale. The scene is laid at Amberley, on the Arun, a country with which the author is evidently......