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Lilliput Lectures, And Lay Sermons And Essays On Conduct. By

W. B. Rands. (James Bowden.)—These two volumes, each of which stands separately as a book by itself, though they are pub- lished at the same moment and in similar format,......

People Of Dickens. Drawn By C. D. Gibson. (john Lane;

London ; R. H. Russell, New York. 20s.)—It is quite unnecessary to say that these drawings are clever. Mr. Gibson's work always deserves that adjective. But whether these......

The Art Journal. (j. S. Virtue And Co. 21s.)—this Volume

seems to us a specially good one. Of the twenty-four full-page illustrations—there are really more than this number, in which only the two monthly plates are reckoned—seven are......

Twelve Years Of A Soldier's Life. From The Letters Of

Major W. T. Johnson. Edited by his Widow. (A. D. hums and Co.) — This book gives an account of the career of a hero of the Indian Mutiny, Major W. T. Johnson. The story is told......

Victories," In Which He Described The Great Naval Battles...

our fleets have won. This he has now supplemented by an account of "duels between single ships and boat actions," which, BA he rightly says, "form almost as important a part of......