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Novfls.—soppy ; Or, The Adventures Of A Savage. By Violet

Fane. 3 vols. (Hurst and Blackett.)—The "savage " is the daughter of an enthusiast, Francis St. Clair, who has married a gipsy girl, and who, after her death, devotes his life......

Gladstone And His Contemporaries. By Thomas Archer. Vol....

and Son.)—In these volumes, of which we have now the first of four before us, Mr. Archer " proposes to recount the wonder- ful story of the half-century." An introductory......

A Digest Of The Law Of Libel And Slander. By

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Current Literature.

CHRISTMAS BOOKS. The Magazine of Art, 1881. (Cassell and Co.)—Nearly fifty full- page illustratious, and four or five times as many of a smaller size, together with a great......

Every-day Life In Our Public Schools. Sketched By Head...

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