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Sylvan Spring. By F. G. Heath. (sampson Low And Co.)—a

sympathetic and pretty volume about spring in the woods and fields. Here are twenty wood engravings of scenery, after drawings by Harrison Weir, Birket Foster, and E. M.......

The Violin-player.'

Is fiction, as in character, there are' re types which are deserving of praise, and which, if the truth be said, seldom meet with their deserts. Through some unfortunate failing......

Poetry.—ripples And Breakers, By Mrs. G. Linnmus Banks...

Paul and Co.), contains many short poems, and a few legendary tales in verse which are the best things in the book, for, though by no moans perfect in expression, they aro......

Current Literature.

Hymns and Other Poetry of the Latin Church. Translated by D. T. Morgan. (Rivingtons.)—Mr. D. T. Morgan, who has long taken an interest in Anglican hymnology, and some of whose......

Roy And Viola. By Mrs. Forrester. 3 Vols. (hurst And

Blackett.) Roy" and " Viola " are, as might be expected, lovers ; but - "Roy," or at foil length, " Sir Douglas Roy," does not make the acquaintance of the heroine till she is......

Sleep, And How To Obtain It. (ward, Lock, And Co.)—this

is not the least useful of the series of little manuals of health, &c., to which it belongs. To the man of forty, who has chosen the better of the two alternatives commonly said......