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Embellished Books .from America.

The Home Book of the Picturesque and The Book -of Home Beauty are two American books for the drawingroem-table :.one, -of the nature of our Landscape Annuals (now, we think,......

Fine Arts.

THE 11.01E&I, AVAT1E7KY 3PLEtTTOWS. 'Pam result of the reeerd elections at the Royal Academy, which we men- tioned last week, is one of those matters on which it is difficult to......

31e.ixish Insmitii Pion-: Coptes From The Old .ma.ste Hs.

There is little !remarkable•or suggestive in the muster of students this year, unless it be that the -selection of works is free from ill taste of the grosser kind. Some......

Publications Received.

Boors. Elementary Physics ; an Introduction to the Study of Natural Philoso- phy. With 21.7 Wood Engravings. By Robert Hunt, Professor of Mechanical Science, Government School......