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Guide To Norway. By C. Jurgenson. (walter Scott.)—the...

in 1884 has been enlarged, and illustrations and time-tables have been added to it. It has maps of the Sogne and Hardanger Fjords, Dovre Fjeld, Romsdalen, Gudbrandsdal, &c. ;......

Mrs. Craik's Poems.*

THOSE who have the power of expressing themselves easily and melodiously in verse, who have, moreover, a quick eye and a ready heart and sympathy for the thousand little......

Lights And Shadows Of Melbourne Life, By John Freeman...

Low and Co.), is a dull collection of newspaper articles on all sorts of life, chiefly of the poorest, in Melbourne. There is very little local colour, and almost all the......

The Teacher's Companion To Macmillan's Progressive French...

Eugene Fasnacht (Macmillan), gives help which should surely be superfluous to any teacher of the French language. But those who are working on their own account may find it......

Two Books On Art May Be Mentioned Together :—a Handbook

of the Italian Schools in the Dresden Gallery. By " C. J. Ff." (W. H Allen and Co.)—The pictures are between six and seven hundred in number, and are discussed in the......

We May Mention Together Two Volumes Of Translated Verse,—...

Works of Victor Hugo, translated by Frederick L. Slous and Mrs. Newton Crossland (Bell and Sons), and Russian Lyrics in English Verse, by the Rev. C. T. Wilson, M.A. (Trubner......

We Have Received The First Volume Of The Bankside...

Edited by Appleton Morgan. (Shakespeare Society of New York.) —This volume contains The Merry Wives of Windsor. The growth of the play is carefully discussed, and much attention......

Practical Exposition Of The Science Of Bridge-building,...

diagrams, and containing special discussions on the connection of experimental data, and the working strength of iron and steel, and wind-pressure, points which have become of......

Robert : Notes From The Diary Of A City Waiter

(Bradbury, Agnew, and Co.), is a republication of some amusing papers which have already appeared in the pages of Punch.......

The Book Of The Greyling. By T. E. Prilt. (goodall

and Suddick, Leeds.)—This is a handsome volume, adorned with some remarkably good illustrations. The author evidently knows all about the greyling, how he lives, and how he is......

Many Readers Will Be Glad To Have Some Of The

fine thoughts so frequently to be found in Canon Westcott's writings, brought con- veniently together in a volume. Such a volume they will find in Thoughts on Revelation and......

Current Literature.

Fancy-Fair Religion. By the Rev. J. Priestley Foster, M.A. (Swan Sonnenschein and Co.)—Mr. Foster denounces in emphatic and pointed language a practice which no one, we presume,......

Philip's Handy - Volume Atlas (george Philip And Son) Is...

useful publication, and of shape and size that quite justify its name. The "Australasia," for instance, contains sixteen plates, measuring about bin. by 5 in., clearly printed.......

Bourne's Handy Assurance Manual (bourne, Liverpool And...

a smaller form the information given in the "Handy Assurance Directory," a publication on the utility of which we expressed a strong opinion last year.......

Applications Of Dynamics To Physics And Chemistry. By J. J.

Thomson, Cavendish Professor of Experimental Physics, Cam- bridge. (Macmillan and Co.)—The object of this treatise is to explain the relation of phenomena, and to develop......