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Thorley's Farmers' Abnanack For 1868 Is An Almanack With...

highly coloured illustrations, devoted to chronicling the events of a farmer's year,. which are, however, all rendered subordinate to panegyric on Thorley's food for cattle, the......

Hess Emilie °arlen's New Story.*

WE scarcely know why this lively novelette was not thrown into what seems to us its natural form,—a comedy, rather than a tale. Perhaps it is that tales suit the taste of modern......

Alwyn Morton ; Ms School And Schoolfellows. A Tale Of

St. Nicholas' Grammar School. With illustrations. (Sampson Low.).—This is a good schoolboys' tale, modelled, of course, as most schoolboys' tales now are, on Tom Brown's School......

A Shilling Book Of New Testament History, For National And

Elementary Schools. By the Rev. G. F. Maclear. (Macmillan.)—The plan of this work is good, and the execution more than worthy of it. Mr. Maclear begins with a short account of......

Current Literature.

The Last Words of Our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. By the Rev. R. S. Cobbett. (Rivingtons.)—Mr. Cobbett is Curate of Twickenham, and this book contains a course of seven......

Sportascrapiana. Edited By C. A. Wheeler. (simpkin,...

a collection of anecdotes on an extremely popular subject this. book is unjustifiably dull. We have waded through it with difficulty, and cannot undertake to hunt up the few......