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Memoir Of Percy Bysshe Shelley. With New Preface By William

Michael Rossetti. (Slark.)—Critics who find it impossible to accept Mr. Rossetti's exalted estimate of Shelley, will give him credit for the most painstaking veracity. He is......

Katie ; An Edinburgh Lassie, By Robina F. Hardy (oliphant,

Anderson, and Ferrier, Edinburgh), is a simple tale, with illustra- tions, of humble life, the heroine being a domestic servant of a rough, but honest and loyal, Scotch type.......

21n, Essay On The Improvement Of Time, With Notes Of

Sermons and other Pieces. By the late John Foster. (G. Bell and Sons.)—It was in the first decade of this century that the Baptist Minister, John Foster, published a volume of......

Ordinary Popularity Enjoyed By Richardson In France, For...

and freed from their redundancies his three celebrated romances. Dr. Johnson thought Richardson a highly moral writer, and his "Pamela," which has always seemed to us, in......

Legends And Superstitions Of The Sea And Of Sailors. By

F. S. Bassett, Lieutenant U.S. Navy. (Sampson Low and Co.) —This is a book which, were it not so full of interesting matter, would be pro- voking on account of its extreme......