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Samuel Palmer's Eclogues Of Virgil.* Tar: Late Mr. Samuel...

of the Old W ater-Colour Society, was in some ways an unique figure in the Art history of the present day,—he had little, if anything, to do with what may be called the......

From The Same Publishers, We Also Have Received Lady Rachel

Russell, by F. P. G. Oeicot ; and Biographical Stories, by Nathaniel Hawthorne, containing short sketches from the lives of Benjamin West, Sir Isaac Newton, Samuel Johnson,......

Stories Of Young Adventurers, By Ascott R. Hope (hogg),...

not a book of this year, may be mentioned, if it should have hap- pened to have escaped the notice of our readers, as :full of interest- ing reading. These "young adventurers "......

Current Literature.

GIFT BOOKS. Battle Stories from British and European History, by W. H. Daven- port Adams (W. Swan Sonnenschein and Co.) ; Bhore and Sea ; or, Stories of Great Vikings and Sea......

With Clive In India. By G. A. Henty. (blackie And

Son.)—Here is a story built, and, as we may expect from so skilled a writer as Mr. Henty, well bnilt, on the foundation of historical fact. Charlie Marryat, by the help of an......

Sir Walter Raleigh : His Life And Times. By F.

L. Clarke. (IV. Swan Sonnenschein and Co.)—There is, of course, something to be put down on the per contra side, in balancing Raleigh's character. Such a balancing, however, the......