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Nebelland And Themsestrand : Studien And Schilderungen...

John Bulls. Von Leopold Katacher. (G. J. Goeschen'sche Verlagshandlang, Stuttgart.)—If less lively than Max O'Rell, who has also favoured us with his impressions of John Bull,......

Burmah After The Conquest. By Grattan Geary. (sampson Low...

Co.)—Mr. Geary, who is the editor of the Bombay Gazette, seems to have resolved upon acting as his own war correspondent when difficulties arose in Barmah; and he pleads for his......

A Book Of The Running Brook And Of Still Waters.

By Lady Colin Campbell. (Sampson Low and Co.)—This is a pleasant and readable little volume, though it does not contain much that is new. There are some fresh stories, however,......

The Annals Of Manchester. Edited By William E. A. Axon.

(Heywood, Manchester.)—Valuable as this book doubtless is, and interesting as must be a considerable part of its contents to Man- chester men in the first place, and to......

A Story Of Active Service In Foreign Lands : Extracts

from Letters sent Home from the Crimea, 1854-1856. By "An Edinburgh Boy." (William Blackwood and Sons.)—All who are old enough to remember the Crimean War, and all who care to......