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After Baxtow's Death. By Morley Farrow. 3 Vols....

we have the old stock materials arranged again in a fashion that does not give them any particular attraction or novelty. "Bartow,"' whose early death we are inclined to regret......

Mr. Coc H Ran E's Historic Studies.*

THESE slight sketches of memorable characters, as Mr. Baillie Cochrane himself styles them, are in reality highly coloured but un- finished portraits of Francis I., Louis XVI.,......

Essays In Mosaic. By Thomas Ballantyne. (sampson'...

pieced together a number of extracts on such subjects as. " The Art of Reading," " The Art of Thinking " and the like, adding occa- sionally or inserting some remarks of his......

Pericuia Urbis, And Other Exercises In Latin, Greek, And...

Verse. By W. Moore, B.A. (Longman.)—Mr. Moore calls his Periculcr Urbis a satire, but it is not easy to refer it to any recognized class of this kind of poem. It is not like......

Current Literature.

The History of the Cathedral Church of IVells. By Edward A. Free- man. (Macmillan.)—The history of Wells Cathedral (a slipshod expres- sion which Mr. Freeman criticizes,—it......