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Metzerott, Shoemaker. (cassell And Co.)—this Book Gives...

picture of life among one of the foreign populations that have found shelter in the United States. It relates the history, external and internal, of a Socialist shoemaker. The......

Cornish Feasts And Folk - Lore. By Miss M. A. Courtney....

and Son, Penzance.)—Miss Courtney has reprinted a number of very interesting papers from the Folk-Lore Society Journals of 1886-87. We cannot pretend to give any analysis or......

Professor Fraser's " Locke."

THE worth of John Locke's work as a thinker is not to be estimated by his philosophy taken in itself, or in the results at which it arrives. These are in many respects......

Current Literature.

The King's Book of Sports. By L. A. Govett. (Elliot Stock.)— This is a sufficiently interesting little volume of the antiquarian sort, although it may be doubted if it is......

The Criton Hunt Mystery. By Mrs. Robert Jocelyn. 3 Vols.

(Hurst and Blackett.)—The "mystery" is, happily, nothing very awful. Two wealthy young ladies think that they should like to be wooed, if they are to be wooed, for the sake of......