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A .1314.71.01, Of Shamrocks ; Being A Co/tethers Of Irish

Tales and Sketches. By E. Owens Blackburne. (Newman and Co.)—No more lively volume of Irish tales then this has heon pualished for many years. It bears the impress of true......

; The Olympian And Pythian Odes. By C. A. M.

Fennell, M.A. (Cambridge : the University Proesa—Pindar enjoys the die. {auction of being the most difficult of Greek authors, not even except- ing sEschylus in his lyric moods,......

Intermediate Schools In Ireland. By M. C. Rime, Ll.d....

and Marshall.)—Dr. Rime gives fifteen reasons why Irish sehoole are not as pxosperous as they should be, reasons which do not, he thiuks, affect English schools, in the same......

Current Literature.

Aunt Jucly'8 Magazine, for October. (George Bell and Sons)— " Jackanapes," the leading story of this number, deserves a review' to itself. The story of that name is meant, we......