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Current Literature.

A Study of the Argonautzca of Vcderies Flaccus. By Walter C. Summers, B.A. (Deighton, Bell, and Co., Cambridge.)—This unpretending pamphlet contains much important matter, does......

The Water - Supply Of Towns And The Construction Of...

W. K. Burton. (Crosby Lockwood and Co.)—Mr. Burton describes himself as "Professor of Sanitary Engineering in the University of Tokyo," and "Consulting Engineer to the Tokyo......

Walton And The Earlier Fishing Writers. By It. B. Marston.

(Elliot Stock.)—Mr. Marston introduces his volume by some pleasant reminiscences of his own ; how he caught Prussian carp before he could read, fished for dace from the meadows......

Science And A Future Life, With Other Essays. By Frederic

W. H. Myers. (Macmillan.)—We must apologise for having delayed so long our notice of these very able essays. The "unity of purpose" which the author claims for the six is......

Talk At A Country-holtse.* There Are No Lines Of Tennyson's

better known, or oftener quoted, than his description of an English home in "The Palace of Art," ending with- " A haunt of ancient peace." An Englishman clings involuntarily to......

We Have Received The "third Volume" Of Cambrian...

Guiana). Music, edited by Joseph Parry, Mus.D. Words in English and Welsh, edited by David Rowlands. (T. C. and E. C. Jack, Edinburgh.)—There are sixty songs and twenty- eight......