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Eastern Tales, By Many Story - Tellers. Compiled And...

and modern authors by Mrs. Valentine. (Frederick Warne and Co.) —These are delightful tales of The Arabian Nights' " kind, and quite as amusing. No child who enjoys "The Arabian......

Operations Of The German Engineers And "technical Troops...

the Franco - German War of 1870-71. From the original of Adolph Goetze, a Prussian engineer. Translated by Colonel Graham, V.C., from the German version published by authority.......

Histoire D'une Forteresse. By M. Viollet Le Due. (sampson...

and Co.)—The author has sought to give us what we may call a biography of fortification, as a branch of military art. He describes no special place, narrates the story of no......

Current Literature.

CHRISTMAS AND NEW-YEAR'S BOOKS. Pictures by Venetian Painters. With Notices of the Artists and Subjects engraved, by William 13. Scott. (George Routledge and Son.) The English......