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Building And Ornamenting Of Oar Great Cathedrals, Is Made...

central subject of this story. Hugh has his choice between arms and art- Shall he be a carver of stone, or n soldier 1 The former is his father's choice, and he makes it,......

Illustrations. Edited By Francis George Heath. (w. Kent...

is a certain most commendable quality of solid worth in this magazine, the second collected volume of which we gladly welcome. Mr. Heath does not disdain fiction; indeed, he......

Zig-zug Journeys In The Western States Of America. By...

Butterworth. (Doan and Son.)—The " Zig-`Lag Club" at Yale School . bears a vast amount of information about the Western States. The Homestead Act is quoted and explained, and......

Tro, Pot, And Pen. By F. Frankfort Moore. (s.p.o.k )—this

is a sea-story of the early years of the century, the days when, what with smugglers and Frenchmen, naval officers had a bony time of it. Smugglers and Frenchmen both play an......

Cassell's Saturday Journal, If It Does Not Carry Off The

palm for the balk of reading which it gives for the price, most at least come very near to doing so. We have more than eight hundred triple. columned pages, closely printed and......

Sunday Reading For The Young (wells Gardner, Barton, And...

is a handsome volume, with a great variety of reading, subordinated to the end which the title indicates, and really excellent illustrations. Nothing, indeed, is more remarkable......

The Story Of Speneer's Faery Queen. Edited By J. E.

Rabbeth. (Bell and Sons.)—Mr. Rabbeth has put into simple, pleasant prose the story of Spencer's great poem. The course which is sometimes possible in adapting such a work to......

The Quiver. Vol. Xvii. (cassell And Co.)—this Well-known...

to maintain its reputation. It shows an imposing list of contributors—every one now seems to write for the magazines, and the professional litterateurs scarcely show among the......

The Sketch-book And Christmas. By Washington Irving....

edition contains the original preface, a pleasant thing to read, with its tribute of gratitude to Sir Walter Scott, in whom Irving found a kind and helpful friend. The "......

Every Girl's Annual. Edited By Alicia A. Leith....

this title we have the collected issue of Every Girl's Magazine for the current year. This periodical is now continued in the new magazine, Atalanta, of which we have had......

We Have Received The Sixth Volume Of Amateur Work, Edited

by the Anther of " Every Man His Own Mechanic" (Ward, Lock, and Co.), a periodical of which we have had occasion to speak more than once before_ One has only to dip at random......