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Current Literature.

A Dictionary of Chemistry. Second Supplement. By Henry Watts. (Longmans.)—A Dictionary of Chemistry presents a task that must be the most laborious even of its kind. A......

The Village Coquette. From The German Of Friedrich...

J. L. Laird. (Chapman and Hall.)—This is a curious study of nature. The beautiful, almost soulless Bertha is brought to something like human steadfastness and feeling by the......

Eglantine.* We Have A Great Respect For Eglantine—the...

the young lady who is called after the flower, and the book that is called after the young lady. But we sigh when we think that love will not accompany respect in our fallen......

A Mad Marriage: A Novel. By Mrs. 314 Agnes Fleming.

(Tinsley Brothers.)—The law of divorce has naturally provided a fruitful theme for novelists,—one capable of treatment in a variety of ways, and in most cases fairly......