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A Ride In Petticoats And Slippers. By Captain H. E.

Colville. (Sampson Low and Co.)—This is as pleasant and entertaining a book of travel as we have seen for a long time. Captain Colville puts his serious topics into appendices,......

Owl And Interesting Matter. There Is, For Instance, Both In

English and Latin, the account by one Peter Johnson of the burning of the steeple of old St. Paul's in 1561. It is interesting to observe that the plumbers, who doubtless are......

A Cruel Secret. By Lolo. (tinsley Brothers.)—that A...

has murdered a man, and that there is a fascinating Polish Count who is aware of the fact, may be regarded as awkward, to say the least of it. When the fascinating Polish Count,......

Dogma, Doubt, And Duty : A Poem, In Fire Cantos.

By C. Hoare (Aston and Mander.)—We protest against this book being described as " a poem." It is not so much as versification. If it was, wo should say (as Pope, we believe,......

Celebrated Travela And Travellers. The Great Navigators...

Century. Translated from the French of Jules Verne. (Sampson Low and Co.)—This is the second volunie of the series in which M. Verne has undertaken the task of telling the......