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Ancient India, As Described By Ctesias. By J. W. Mccrindle.

(Calcutta, Thacker and Spink ; London, Triibner and Co.)—Ctesias is receiving something of the same kind of rehabilitation as regards his truthfulness which Herodotus long ago......

How I Became A Sportsman. By Avon. (chapman And Hall.)—

This is a pleasant book of sporting reminiscences, experiences of hunting, shooting, and fishing, told, all of them agreeably, with just the little tincture of letters that all......

How India Is Governed. By Alexander Mackenzie. (kegan...

and Co.)—Mr. Mackenzie's little book tells us a number of facts about which most English readers, it may safely be affirmed, know nothing,—facts relating to the economical, as......

The Divine Comedy Of Dante Alighieri Inferno. Translated...

Pike. (Kenn Paul, Trench, and Co.)—We do not claim to have compared this version with the original, and can only speak to its being intelligible and readable, with something, at......

The Encheiridion Of Epictetus. Translated From The Greek,...

W. II. Rolleston, B.S. (Kegan Paul, Trench, and Co.)—Tho Encheiri- dion has been translated before into English. Mr. Long translated it, along with the other remains of......

New Editions.—catherine And Craufurd Tait: A Memoir....

Rev. W. Benham. (Macmillan.)—This is an abridged edition of the biographies which were read with so eager an attention when they appeared, some time ago. The principle of the......

Belcaro. By Vernon Lee. (satchell And Co.)—the "essays On...

iffsthetical Questions," as the author describes her book, in its second title, are marked by all the qualities which distinguished her " Studies of the Eighteenth Century in......