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Poetry.—claudis And Fide, And Other Poems. By Aston...

Literary Society.)—This volume is dedicated to the memory of John Keats, poet ; a name which the reading of the poems themselves did not suggest to us. The author is not without......

We Have Also Before Us A Series Of Lengman's New

Readers. (Long- mans and Co.)—The volumes are a First Primer, in which are com- bined the " alphabetic " and " look-and-say " methods of teaching reading ; pictures—and very......

We Have Received A Series Of Standard Readers, Edited By

Professor Meiklejohn. ( Blackwold and Sons.)—These are six volumes, adapted for the six standards of primary schools. The choice of extracts, so far as we have been able to......

A Digest Of English History, 1760.1815. By M. Gutteridge,...

(Relfe Brothers.)—This is one of the many books called forth by the examination system. It seems carefully done ; and read after the student has gone through some standard......