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Lancelot, With Sonnets And Other Poems. By William...

(Moron.)—The versification in this volume is very good. The poems. are quite free from any exhibition of bad taste ; there is always a mean- ing in the lines, which is really......

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The Emotions and the Will. By Alexander Bain, M.A. Second Edi- tion. (Longmans.)--In this new edition of his elaborate work Mr. Bain has made extensive alterations. He has had......

A History Of Arcbti'ecture.*

hasy of our readers wilLhave a pleasant recolleotion of. Mr. Fer- gusson's Handbook of Architecture, as a work whose bright- wood engravings brought back to memory many a vivid......

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The King And People Of Fiji. By Rev. J. Waterhouse.

(Wesleyan Conference Office.)—If Mr. Waterhouse had put his story into any shape, he could not have failed to make a great success. Some of the Incidents in the volume are......