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What Obscure Words By A Sub-title, "devonshire Customs,...

Folk-Lore." We . find, however, on examina- tion that there is much that is as common outside Devonshire as within its borders. Sowing hempseed, burning nuts in the fire,......

Scitoot - Booics. — The Mother Tongue, By Sarah Louise...

Kittredge (E. Arnold, Part I., 2s., Part II., 2s. 6d.), is in two books, the first containing "Lessons in Speaking, Reading. and Writing English," the second "An Elementary......

War-boogs.—a Military Biography Is Major - General Hector...

Campbell (Andrew Melrose, Is. net). Majcr-General Macdonald enlisted in the Gordon Highlanders in 1870, being some months short of the legal age. Three years afterwards he was......