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Lynn Of The Craggs. By Charlotte Smith. (sampson Low.)—it...

be difficult to imagine a more inartistic book, but it is readable, fall of incident, and with at least two characters in it of some force and originality. We should imagine its......

Cotton's Railroad Map Of The United States And The Canadas.

Containing also a tracing of Sherman's route through Georgia and South Carolini. (Bacon and Co.)—This is really a clear and admirable map of a some- -what large size, which if......

Son And Heir. No Author. (hurst And Blackett.)—readable...

a slightly absurd plot. Hero breaks the heart of everybody about him because he will not break an absurd promise of secrecy extorted from him on a death-bed. Authoress......

Pages In Waiting. By The Author Of Broken To Harness.

(Maxwell.) —A number of fugitive pieces reprinted from Temple Btu. magazine They are not above the usual average of magazine padding—amusing reading for a railway jonraey, but......

Mr. Sala's Diary In America.*

- [FROM OUR CORRESPONDMTT Dr NEW YORK.] BEFORE this letter reaches London, the readers of the Spectator will probably have seen many reviews of Mr. Sala's Diary in America in......

A Century Of Anecdote. By John Timbs. Two Vols. (bentley.)—a

thoroughly good collection of stories, chiefly from memoirs, compiled chiefly with a view to the illustration of manners and changes in man- ners, illustrations of personal......

Current Literature.

Triibner's American and Oriental Literary Record for March.—This is the first number of a monthly register intended to comprise the names .of the most important books published......

History Of Peehlesshire. By W. Chambers. (w. And R....

—Mr. Chambers is, we believe, a native of Peebles, and presides some- times at the dinner of the "gutter-bloods," and he has executed his self- imposed task as a labour of love,......

North British Review. March, 1865. (edmonston And...

heavy number. A notice of the late Mr. Leech, written by a sincere admirer, is perhaps the best paper, but its writer has the great advantage of reviving some of Leech's cuts to......

Put To The Test. No Author. (j. Maxwell.)—as Readable As

it is well possible for a novel to be without being a work of genius. The single defect of the book is that while its author has evidently a pur- pose, it is nearly impossible......

Avila Hope. No Author. (tinsley Brothers.)—a Clever And...

novel. By this we mean that the author can produce ex- ceedingly effective single sentences, but not a story. The plot is of the bigamy kind, Lord Lyle, gentle, pleasant, and......

Belial. No Author. (smith And Elder.)—a Clover But...

The author has, tried to describe an evil man of tbe world, a handsome voluptuary, "with full lips and bold blue eyes," but has scarcely succeeded. Men of the class he draws do......