1 JANUARY 1870, page 32

Peter Parley's Annual For 1870. (bon. George.)—there Was...

real "Peter Parley," who has, we believe, been dead for some years. The commercial value of the name is, we suppose, not exhausted, but from a literary point of view we cannot......

The Flora Of Middlesex. By Il Trimen, 31.11, And W.

T. Thisleton Dyer, B.A. (Ilardwicke.)—This is a book of immense research, which all Middlesex botanists—and they are, and always have boon, a numer- ous and enthusiastic......

Favilla's Follies. By Ella Winter. 2 Vols. (newby.)—if...

could govern her pen, which, as it is, simply runs away with her, she might write something which we could read without an effort, even with pleasure. Favilla herself we do not......