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St John And The Seven Churches. Illustrated With Eight Steel

Engravings. By the Rev. Robert Vaughan. (Virtue and Co.)— The frontispiece "Christ and St. John" is after Ary Scheffer, though in the "Table of Contents" it is oddly enough......

Worth Waiting For. By J. Masterman. (c. Kogan Paul And

Co.) —Readers who are not discouraged by the opening chapters of this novel, which are disfigured by some clumsy and dreary playfulness calculated to make one renounce the......

The Little Leo: A Story Of The South Sea. By

Sydney Mostyn. 3 vols. (Samuel Tinsley.)—This is a good story, which does not need to be recommended to the reader by the not very pleasing "short introduction" which the author......

The History Of Margaret Morton. By A Contemporary....

Hall.)—A thoroughly middle-class novel, in which there are no lords and ladies, whose scenes lie not in Belgravia, in which fashionable jargon has no place, and nobody seems......

John-a-dreams : A Tale. (blackwood And Sons.)—it Is...

own fault that we are unable to discern the author's meaning in this story, which produces on the reader an effect similar to that of certain handwritings, that look beautifully......