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Taste.* In Spite Of A Very Ambitious And Somewhat Alarming

title, this book is by no means dull, and it is not extravagantly absurd. It is a thin volume, well got up, and charmingly bound, profess- ing to be the work of G-.-L.," and......

Belles And Ringers. By Captain Hawley Smart. (chapman And...

title of this book, Belles and Ringers, is an elegant and facetious paraphrase for "young ladies, and the gentlemen who wish to marry them," though why any gentleman should wish......

Current Literature.

The British Quarterly Review. October. (Hodder and Stoughton.) —The critical essay on Mr. Tennyson's poetry with which the num- ber opens is scarcely equal to the somewhat lofty......

Birds, Fishes, And Cetacea Of Belfast Lough. By Robert Lloyd

Patterson. (David Bogus.)—This is a very interesting monograph, in which the naturalist and the sportsman will find much to suit their tastes, and which the reader who has no......

General Interest, But All Seem Worthy Of Preservation. Of...

latter class, perhaps the best is that on " Editors and Contributors," by Mr. H. Franks, a very shrewd and entertaining paper, and manifestly the work of one who knows what he......