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Cold Comfort. By Burke O'farrell. 3 Vols. (newby.)—cold...

it can scarcely be called a good novel, is cleverly written. After the- wearisome pages through which we have to wade—onr readers, who would never dream of ever looking at such......

" Express From Marble" Is A False Metaphor; Why Not

" work " or " ex- press in marble " ? "Tell the risings of the stars " would be, anyhow, shorter for surgentia eiders dicent." "Make it your business" is somewhat prosaic for......

New Grooves. By Annie Thomas (mrs. Pander Cudlip)....

is one of the little tales in which Mrs. Cudlip exhibits her didactic mood, for she has a mood, if we do not misjudge her novelsa, in which she is not didactic, at least in the......

Noble Thoughts In Noble Language. Edited By Henry...

Lock, and Tyler.)—One seldom has much fault to find with a book of extracts. An editor has a wide range to travel over, and we have no right to be captious if his taste does not......

Current Literature.

The Works of Virgi4 rendered into English Prose. " Globe Series." By James Lonsdale, MA., and Samuel Lee, M.A. (Macmillan.)— The only prose version of Virgil with which we are......

Dr. Dobell's Reports Of The Progress Of Practical And...

31edictne' in Different Parts of the World. (Lamgmans.)—This is the second volume of what promises to be a very valuable series. Dr. Dobell has established communications with......