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Diana Carew ; Or, For A Woman's Sake. By Mrs.

Forrester. 3 vols. (Hurst and Blackett).—We do not like this novel at all. We would not call it immoral, but its tone is low and worldly. Of course, we shall be told that the......

The School - Goy Saint. A Sketch Of The Life Of Decalogne

de la Porno. By Mrs. J. F. Mitchell. (J. T. Hayes.)—Decalogne de la Perrie was born about the middle of the last century, not very far from Amiens. He died in his seventeenth......

Lectures On State Medicine. By F. S. B. Francois De

Chaumont, M.D., F.R.C.S.E. (Smith, Elder, and Co.)—The present volume com- prises six lectures delivered in May and June, 1875, before the Society' of Apothecaries. The chief......

My Young Alcides. By Charlotte M. Yonge. 2 Vols....

—Miss Yonge has ingeniously applied to the legend of Hercules the method which Miss Thaokeray has used with our fairy-tales. "The Young Alcides" comes from a stock-farm in......

A Family Tree. By Albany De Fonblanque. 3 Vols. (bentley.)—

A story cut into two parts by an interval of more than two centuries must be managed with unusual skill to be successful. Mr. de Fon- blanque is ingenious. "The Roots of It" and......

Dante And Beatrice. From 1282 To 1290. A Romance. By

" Roxburgh° Lothian." 2 vols. (Henry S. King and Co.)—The writer of this romance appears to have made a careful study of the life and times of the great Italian poet, and to......

Slippery Ground. By Lewis Wingfield. 3 Vols. (tinsley...

Wingfield, we suppose, has seen many things, and knows some- thing about some out-of-the-way places. And he has certainly studied recent revelations about commercial dishonesty......

Force And Sensation.* .

PERHAPS there never was a time when the tendency of inquirers in the debatable region that separates yet connects Physics and Philosophy to reduce everything to the identity of......