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Current Literature.

GIFT-BOOKS. Messrs. Routledge publish a gaily coloured book of various nursery-rhymes, under the title of Mother Goose, and The House that Jack Built (which, by-the-way, is an......

Legends And Traditions Of Yorkshire.* One Identifies...

York itself, that strong- hold of cloistered meditation, that standing evidence of the reality of the Fax Romana —so much with the material activity of modern England, and with......

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Pictures From The Acts Of The Holy Apostles. By The

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Japanese Plays. By The Late Thomas R. H. Mcclatchie. Edited

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The Boy's Own Annual And The Girl's Own Annual (56

Paternoster Row), are republications in handsome volumes of two weekly papers devoted to the interests of boys and girls respectively. We have commended them often before, and......

The Family Coach. By M. And C. Lee. (national Society.)—

This is a genuine child's book, not quite so common a thing as one might suppose among the multitude of volumes that profess to be written for this public. Henrietta Strangways,......