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Fra Angelico. (" The Great Artists.") By C. M. Phillimore.

(Sampson Low and Co.)—We cannot say that we have detected much difference between this compilation and the ordinary picture-gallery catalogue. In the space of one hundred and......

Current Literature.

Curiosities of Criticism. By Henry J. Jennings. (Chatto and Windus.)—Mr. Jennings allows that critics are necessary, an alio% - ance which might be made for mosquitoes, and......

Music And Musicians : Essays And Criticisms By Robert...

Translated, edited, and annotated by Fanny Raymond Ritter. (Wi!- Ham Reeves.)—Miss (or Mrs. ?) Ritter's comparison of Schumann's essays on musical criticism to the literary......

Fancy Pigeons. By J. C. Lyell. (the Bazaar Office.)—mr....

book is fully up to the statement of the diffuse title we have abbrevi- ated. Considering what has been done in the study of variation among pigeons, we were surprised to find......

Magazines, Exc.—we Have Received The Following For...

10 of Pathways of Palestine, with two permanent photographs,. illustrating the ravine of the Bedron and Elishals fountain at Jericho.—Men of Mark, the portraits given this month......

Architecture, Gothic And Renaissance. By T. R. Smith....

Text-books of Art Education.") (Sampson Low and Co.)— The plan of this series has been made with a clear perception of what text-books of art should attempt. Their work is......

English Plant Names, From The Tenth To The Fifteenth...

13'y the Rev. Professor John Earle. (Clarendon Press.)—Here are 112 pages of introduction, 65 of text, 16 of appendix, 13 of notes, and 26 of index. The introductory......