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Thucydidis I. By Richard Shillito. (deighton And Bell ; Bell

and Daldy.)—Mr. Shillito speaks modestly of his book as a "scanty instal- ment" of a long-promised work. The volume is indeed over slender to contain a full annotation even on......

Goethe: His Life And Works. Au Essay. By George H.

Calvert. (Boston, U.S.: Lee and Shepard. London : Triihnor and Co.)—This is certainly a clever essay; much of its criticism is acute and just ; the appreciation of the genius of......

Celebres. There Is Something Essentially French Both In...

and the reality of the Dimes Judiciaires. We, too, have tragedies enough, and more than enough, but we do not arrange them so effectively. These all alike, victim, criminal,......

The Scrence Of Theology ; Or The Order Of Universal

I! eatery. By Robert Gregory. (Nisbet.)—After all, it is sometimes possible to judge shrewdly enough of a house by a brick. Here is a " brick " from the vast edifice which Mr.......

The Animal Creation. By Thomas Rymer Jones. (warne.)—pro-...

describes his book as "A Popular Introduction to Zoology." Four hundred and fifty pages, with more than as many illustrations, are, of course, insufficient, as indeed twice the......

Six Of One By Half A Dozen Of The Other

: an Every-day Novel. By Harriet Beecher Stowe, Adeline T. D. Whitney, Lucretia P. Hale, Frederic W. Loring, Frederic B. Perkins, Edward E. Hale. (Boston : Roberts......