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Birket Foster : His Life And Work. By M. B.

Huish. With numerous Illustrations. (Art Journal Office.)—This number of the Art Annual is devoted to Mr. Birket Foster. It tells a not un- interesting chapter in the history of......

The Art Union Of London Send Us A Portfolio Of

four etchings issued with their tickets for 1891. The etchings are after Barker's Clovelfteld, Callcott's Entrance to Pisa from Leghorn, Constable's House at Hampstead, and......

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A Manual Of Archaeology. By Talfourd Ely, M.a. (h. Grevel

and Co.)—This book is evidently the result of much labour, un- sparingly expended on a favourite subject. " Archeology" is a big word, and though Mr. Talfourd Ely has contrived......

Under Sentence. By Mary Cross. 2 Vols. (ward And Downey.)

—A secret assassin pervades this story. He fires a shot and nearly kills the hero ; he fires another and actually kills some one else. The reader is much exercised—that is, if......

Vie De Saint Hugues, Chartreux, Eve'que De Lincoln. Par Un

Religieux de In Grande Chartreuse. (Burns and Oates.)—The establishment of the French Carthusians at Parkminster, in Sussex, one of the consequences of the French law against......

The English Rediscovery And Colonisation Of America. By...

and Marie A. Shipley. (Elliot Stock.)—This is a curious book, and worth reading, even if, after reading, one does not see one's way to agree altogether with the authors, who......

Selections From The Works Of Charles Reade. With An...

tion by Mrs. Alexander Ireland. (Chatto and Windus.)—Charles Reade is not an author who lends himself most easily to extract, but this is simply because he is a novelist. Fine......

Wells Wills. Arranged In Parishes And Annotated. By...

Weaver. (Kegan Paul and Co.)—The compiler of this curious volume, who is evidently an accomplished archeologist, has, by the permission of the President of the Probate Division......

What Ails The Baby ? By John Dewar, M.d. (william

Paterson and Co.), is a compact, crisply written, carefully indexed, shilling book of less than a hundred pages, belonging to the excellent " Red Cross Series of Health......