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Luna : A Mere Love Story. By Margaret C. Helmer°.

2 vols. (Smith and Elder.)—We feel perversely inclined to take a greater interest in the personages whom Miss Helmore displays to us for a brief time in her "Introduction," than......

'juice Dom= : Essays On Home Life. By Frederick Perry,

M.A. (Stt : ahan.)—This is one of the books to which the best critical test that can be applied is that very simple one,—is it readable ? We may answer that it is se, at least......

Sermons Preached In _several Synagogues. By The Rev. B....

(Triibner.)—This volume would deserve, apart from other considera- tions, to be noticed as a literary curiosity. Mr. Alton; who is Chief Rabbi of the Spanish and Portuguese......

Pictures By Sir Edwin Landseer. With Descriptions And A Bio-

graphical Sketch of the Painter. By James Dafforne. (Virtue, Spalding, and Daldy.)—Mr. Dafforne makes, as is usual with him, an interesting sketch of his subject. Landseer's......

A New Biographical Dictionary. By Thompson Cooper, F.s.a....

Sons.)--Mr. Cooper, who was associated with his father, Mr. Charles Henry Cooper, in the great work of the "Athena, Cantabri- gienses," makes here a very valuable contribution......