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We Have Received Some Fine Specimens Of Various Processes Of

artistic reproduction. The Autotype Company publish Zenobia's- Last Look on Palmyra, by Mr. Herbert Schmalz, a fine work, which has been secured for the National Gallery of......

The Troubles Of Monsieur Bourgeois. By George Frost....

and Co.)—The struggles of Monsieur Bourgeois to achieve those ever-receding desiderata, economy, and a dot for his daughter, despite the extravagance, and hankerings after the......

Short Biographies For The People. By Various Writers....

Tract Society.)—This is the seventh volume of a series of which we have on several previous occasions spoken with well- deserved praise. The subjects of the twelve biographies......

The Bookworm. An Illustrated Treasury Of Old-time Litera-...

Series. (Elliot Stock.)—Although this olla podrida of good things about books and book-collectors does not fully answer to its title, it is a capital volume to glance over in......

The Post-office London Directory For 1891. The...

(Kelly and Co.)—A commendable feature in connection with the latest issue of this compact and useful business compendium is the fact that the enterprising pub- lishers have......

The Servant Of The Lord In Isaiah :cl.-lxvi. By John

Forbes, D.D. (T. and T. Clark, Edinburgh.)—Some forty years ago, Dr. Forbes, who is now Emeritus Professor of Oriental Languages in the University of Edinburgh, wrote a very......

The Autocrat In The Green ; With A Play After

" Othello." By William Spink. (Bickers and Son.)—Mr. Spink puts forth with much vigour, and occasional looseness of expression, his views on the drama of to-day. If it is to be......

The Life Of Robert Burns. By John Gibson Lockhart. Revised

edition, with new Notes, Appendices, and Literary Illustrations, by John H. Ingram. (Ward, Lock, and Co.)—On the title-page of this volume, the editor has unfortunately quoted a......

Wood-carving. By C. G. Leland, M.a. (whittaker And Co.)—...

is published, we are told, in furtherance of the object of prac- tical education, a subject on which the author has already written. Whatever may be its aim, it treats of......