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Illustrations. Conducted By Francis George Heath,...

welcome this, the annual volume of an excellent periodical. It has the merit of being entirely free from the element of fiction, of which surely we have now more than enough. "......

The Portfolio, 1890. Edited By Philip Gilbert Hamorton....

Co.)—This periodical has been noticed from time to time during the past year. It will suffice, therefore, to remind our readers that this is the first volume of a second series,......

Constitutional Documents Of The Puritan Revolution,...

by Samuel Rawson Gardiner, M.A. (The Clarendon Press.)—These Documents "are intended," says Mr. Gardiner, " to servo either as a basis for the study of the consti- tutional......

The Monthly Chronicle Of North-country Lore And Legend....

Legend " does not occupy any very prominent place in this very interesting periodical. It is chiefly concerned with the record of historical and local facts, The volume now......

Oar Boys And Girls At School. By Henry J. Barker.

(J. W. Arrowsmith.)----This is another of Mr. Barker's most entertaining volumes. That he is exceptionally fortunate in getting hold of• good things is beyond doubt. Does he......

Theory Of Physics. By Camilo Calloja. (kogan Paul And Co.)

—This is a rectification, the author tells us, of the theories of molar mechanics, heat, chemistry, sound, light, and electricity. The three last ho calls " progenic physics,"......