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Novels And Tales.—a Secret Of The Past. By Victor O'd.

Power. 3 vols. (Ward and Downey.)—This is a tale of the old-fashioned kind which used to please the unsophisticated zi ovel- readers before such subtleties as character-drawing......

James Thomason. By Sir Richard Temple, Bart. (clarendon...

narrative is published as a supplementary volume to "The Rulers of India" series ; and the author states that since it is largely drawn from personal recollections, and gives......

The Chemistry Of Life And Health. By C. W. Kimmins.

(Methuen.)—Teaching of any sort that renders the assimilation of sanitary knowledge easier to the majority is to be welcomed, we suppose. It is remarkable, however, that our......

Principles Of Ornament. By J. Ward. (chapman And Hall.)— So

few people have any notion as to what constitutes Classicism, or Medirovalism, or Renaissance, or Balance, or Symmetry, that we can well imagine their finding a mine of......

Zoology Of The Invertebrate. A Text-book For Students. By...

E. Shipley, M.A.. (Adam and Charles Black.)—This work does not profess to go beyond the modest limits announced on the title-page, the author having almost confined himself to......