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The Rescue Of Greely.* We Venture To Assert That Few,

if any, books of travel and adventure published within the last year will more thoroughly repay the trouble of careful perusal than the volume before Here is no dry record of......

What's His Offence? By The Author Of "the Two Miss

Flemings." 3 vols. (Hurst and Blackett.)—There seems to be what we may call a recrudescence of the " Claimant " epidemic among the writers of fiction. One of the prominent......

Current Literature.

The Life of Thomas Wanless, Peasant. (John Dale, Manchester.)— The writer hits some blots in our social system ; that it is not diffi- cult to do. The difficulty is to be just......

The Child's Voice. By Emil Behnke And Lennox Browne....

Low and Co.)—The authors have collected opinions from a great number of practical teachers as to the effects on the voice of singing by children, especially on the important......

Wages And Earnings Of The Working Classes. By Professor...

Levi. (John Murray.)—This is a report made to Sir Arthur Bass, M.P., supplementing and bringing up to date the inquiries instituted by the author, at the desire of Sir Arthur's......

An" Ill-regulated Mind." By Katharine Wylde. (blackwood...

Wylde has given us an original tale under this title, which may, with a little alteration, be applied to her book; for although it contains good scenes, vivid description, and......

False Steps. By Douglas Dalton. (tinsley Brothers.)'—" My...

says the father of the heroine to his newly-recovered daughter, "how marvellously you remind me of your mother. The very mole she bad on her neck is reproduced in you." Mr.......