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Domestic Economy For Girls. Edited By The Rev. E. T.

Stevens, M.A. Book L Food and Clothing. Book IL Furniture and Appliances of the House. (Longmana, Green, and Co.)—These books have been compiled to most the requirements of the......

The Evil Eye, And Other Stories. By Katharine S. Macquoid.

(Chatto and Windus.)—These are short stories of French life and manners, some sad, some cheerful, the writer's leaning being rather to , the first kind, in which her gifts as a......

Eismet. By Mrs. Newton Sears. 2 Vols. (remington.)—this...

the doings of Va.vasour St. Lawrence, who certainly, but for the fact that he was really married already, is somewhat badly treated by the young lady who had promised to marry......

The Witness Of Art. By Wyke Bayliss. (hodder And...

The legend of "Beauty and the Beast" has been turned to good account as an allegory of the power Which art has awakened and exer- cises in the human mind. The ethics of......

First Platform Of International Law. By Sir E. S. Creasy.

(John Van Voorst.)—This is a book which every student of history and polities (the two can hardly be distinguished) will do well to read. It is as might be expected from the......

Current Literature.

Pozrnr.—Songs Now and Then. By T. Ashe. (Bell and Sons.)—Mr. Ashe does not seem to advance. He made a place for himself some years ago, in what may be called the "remove" of the......