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Letters From A Young Emigrant In Manitoba. (kegan Paul,...

and Co.)—The gist of this book is to be found in the few words which are appended by the editor to the last of the letters. The writer of them went out at eighteen, and "he has......

The Land Of The Five Rivers And Sindh. By David

Ross. (Chap- man and Hall.)—This volume may be briefly described as a gazetteer of the Punjaub and Sindh. Information, both historical and geo- graphical, is abundantly supplied......

The Conservation. Of Solar Energy. By C. William Siemens,...

(Macmillan and Co.)—Mr. Siemens publishes here, together with the original paper, read to the Royal Society last year, the correspondence which that paper, with the remarkable......

Contradictions. By Frances M. Peard. 2 Vols. (bentley And...

—Miss Peard does not trouble herself to provide much incident for the entertainment of her readers. Of course, there are mis- understandings, and there is a rescue, an heroic......

Her Sailor Love. By Katharine S. Macquoid. 3 Vols. (hurst

and Blackett.)—We must own that these three volumes of lovers' affairs, even treated with the skill which Mrs. Macquoid's pen can command, seemed to us a little wearying. It can......

Moloch. By Mrs. Campbell Praed. 3 Vole. (chapman And Boo

—Most readers will be a little surprised by the scenes in which they first make acquaintance with Mrs. Campbell Praed's heroine. If this young lady had dropped from the moon,......

Our Eastern Sisters And Their Missionary Helpers. By...

Ellis. (Religions Tract Society.)—There is much that will interest the reader in this volume. It is a record of work that has been done among women in India and the Further......

Azahar. By E. C. Hope-edwards. (bentley And Son.)—miss...

us here extracts from a journal which she kept in Spain, during the winter of 1881-82. She entered Spain by way of Barcelona, and spent the greater part of her time at Valencia.......

Sophocles : The Seven Plays, In English Verse. By Lewis

Camp- bell, M.A. (Kagan Paul, Trench, and Co.)—Professor Campbell has done so mach good work for Sophocles, that any contribution of his to the understanding and appreciation of......