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A Child Of The People, And Other Poems. By James

Chapman Woods. (C. Began Paul and Co.)—The " child of the people" is a girl taken from the gutter and gently reared. She has a lover, an idle man of fashion. Then comes a......

The Telephone, Microphone, And Phonograph. By Count Du...

Kegan Paul and Co.)—Du Moncel is the chief authority in France upon the subjects here discussed. He has mastered each development of these new inventions directly it has been......

Novels.—drifted Together. By Elizabeth Savile. 3 Vols....

begins her novel with a happy marriage. Winifred de Valine marries Lord Mortimer, and though there is,con- siderable disparity between their ages, is happy ever,after; and what......

The Romance Of The London Directory. By Charles W. Bardsley,

M.A. (" Hand and Heart " Publishing Office.)—This is a reprint of some papers which appeared in The Fire.ide, papers which are not only readable and amusing, but show also no......

Our Old Nobility. By "noblesse Oblige." (howard Evans.)...

(Published for the Political Tract Society, by C. J. Kibblewhite.)—The author continues to deal with the great English families, explaining how they came by their possessions,......

Electric Lighting, And Its Practical Application. By J....

(Hardwicke and Bogue.)—Many interesting and some useful bits of information concerning electric lights and electric light- ing will be found in Mr. Shoolbred's small volume. It......