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Recaptured Rhymes. By H. D. Traill. (blackwood And...

Traill will not be surprised, if we express the opinion that his non-political verses are the more successful of the "rhymes." He can anyhow be read with a more general and a......

La Bou7bou2e. By Dr. G. H. Brandt. (h. K. Lewie.)—la

Bourbonle is in Auvergne, and is famous for its arsenical springs. The great or Perriere spring is of a temperature of 132 (Fahrenheit), and contains, besides the chlorides of......

The Martyrdom Of Madeline.* Ma. Bucnerws Is A Master In

the art of story-telling; he pos- sesses in an unusual degree the power of arresting and keeping the attention of his readers, and his words and thoughts flow easily and......

Current Literature.

The Poems of Virgil, Translated into Engitidh. Prose. By john Conington, MA. (Longman.)—Many Oxford men will remember that the late Professor Conington was accustomed......

Opium.smoking In America And China. By H. H. Kane, M.d.

(G. P. Putnam's Sons, New York.)—Dr. Kane, with the character- istic devotion of medical science, has made many interesting experi- ments of the action of opium on himself, has......