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Tales Of Ancient Greece. By The Rev. G. W. Cox.

(Longmans.)— Mr. Cox has here collected the contents of several volumes already known to the public, and some of them already highly estimated in these columns, under the titles......

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A Manual of Political Economy. By James E. Thorold Rogers. (Clarendon Press.)—We can say thus much for Mr. Rogers, that he writes in a clear and agreeable style, and that he is......

Work - A - Day Briers. 3 Vols. By The Author Of The Two

Anastasias. (Bentley.)—This is a novel of considerable merit, but put together with very little art. The first volume opens with a very pretty little scene, in which we have a......

A Tour In Crete. By Edward Postlethwaite. (hotten.)—mr.....

about six weeks in the summer of last year among the Cretan insurgents. He seems to have seen very little, and to lack the power of describing that little. But the book--for we......

Alice Grwme. By 2 Vols. (chapman And Hall) — The

scene of the story is laid in Scotland. The heroine is daughter to a country schoolmaster, and becomes acquainted with George Laurie, a good-looking young lawyer. The first......

Jeanne D'arc, And Other Poems. By Robert Steggall. (a. W.

Ben- nett.)—This volume shows in its author a considerable poetical taste, which, however, does not seem to be always awake; a faculty, if not always exercised, of harmonious......