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The Hatchet - Throwers. By James Greenwood. With...

(J. C. Hotten.)—Much in this book will make the grown reader laugh, and the illustrations will send children into hysterics. But if Mr. James Greenwood and M. Ernest Griset have......

The Valley Of Tears. A Poem. By John Croker Barrow,

ILA. (Longmans.)—This is a singular production, and we can liken it to no- thing but one of the metrical histories of the middle ages. With no poetic graces, but with a......

Dr. Acland On The Principle Of Design.*

* The Herniae Oration, 1855. By Henry W. Aclaud, M.D.. Oxon., Regius Pro- fessor of Medicine in the University of Oxford. L3nd MaCMillan and Utr. 1565. " HISTORIANS," says Dr.......

Post - Office London Directory For 1836, Comprising...

an Official Directory, Street Directory, Trades Directory, Law Directory, Court Directory, Parliamentary Directory, &c. Sixty-seventh annual publication. (Kelly and Co.)—We have......

Current Literature.

The Student's English Dictionary, Etymological, Pronouncing, and Explanatory. By John Ogilvie, LL.D. Illustrated by about 300 engravings on wood. (Blackie and Son.)—This is the......

Our Children's Pets. By Josephine. (s. W. Partridge.) — This

is a very prettily illustrated book, one of the illustrations, in which two goats meet on a tree that has fallen across a precipice, and solve the arising dilemma by agreeing to......