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A Readable English Dictionary, By David Milne (murray),...

of a novelty in the way of lexicons, and a commendable one. Its object is to afford to those who have little or no know- ledge of Latin and Greek, " an easy, interesting, and......

Curve Pictures Of London. By Alexander Mcdowell. (sampson...

take too much space to reveal the "secret," simple though that is, of the diagrams by which Mr. McDowell shows at a glance hcw we stand now, and how we have stood before, in......

Current Literature.

The New British Constitution and its Master-Builders, by the Duke of Argyll (Douglas, Edinburgh), is in the form of a thin little volume of 140 pages, a clever, well-planned,......

Mr. Punch's Victorian Era. Vol. Ii. (bradbury, Agnew, And...

second volume includes the sixteen years 1860-1875. Mr. Tenniel, whose portrait forms the frontispiece, is the leading artist of this admirable series of drawings. One of the......

Irish Antiquities.*

Jr is fortunate for students of Irish arekeology that for Christian art in any case a greater antiquity cannot be claimed than 1888 years, and that the probable date of the......

Bridewell Royal Hospital, Past And Present (wells...

Co.), is a short account, by Mr. A. J. Copeland, Treasurer of the Royal Hospitals of Bridewell and Bethlehem, of the palace, hospital, gaol, and school, which in the popular......