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The Confederation Of British North America. By E. C. Bolton

and H. H. Webber, Royal Artillery. With maps. (Chapman and Hall.)— The authors of this vary vigorous brochure are of opinion that the Cana- dian Confederation scheme is......

Sir W. Scott's Novels. (j. C. Hotten.)—this Is Really A

cheap six- pennyworth. For that sum the purchaser gets the whole of one of Sir Walter Scott's novels, without condensation from the original edition, in a type as clear as the......

Current Lrre Rat Ure.

Four Years in the Saddle. By Colonel Harry Gilmer. (Longmans.) —We rise from this volume with a dazed sense of blazing gunpowder, whistling bullets, clashing sabres, and a man......

After The Storm.*

MR. SKINNER acted, we suppose, as correspondent to some jour- nal, for only a special correspondent could have written at once so discursively and so well, could have noticed so......