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We Have Also Received The Educational Almanack, 1886....

Union.) — It contains a "chronicle of educations/ events," an account of various educational societies, and a number of interesting statistics. Among these last we find some......

We Have Received The Annual Issue Of Whitaker's Almanack (j.

Whitaker), an admirable publication, which has established a repu- tation for itself as a simply invaluable book of reference. All sorts of guides seem to fail one occasionally,......

The World's Workers. (cassell And Co.)—we Have Received...

of a most useful aeries bearing this title. They are biographies of great men, great in literature, the arts, science,—in short, all the occupations of human life. They are......

Current Literature.

Lyrics and ether Posies. By Richard Watson Gilder. (Scribnees Sons, New York, U.S.A.)—Mr. Gilder's lyrics are better known on the other side of the Atlantic than in this country......

We Have Received The Second Volume (third Series) Of The

Expositor. Edited by the Rev. W. Robertson Nicoll, M.A. (Nodder and Stoughton.)—Five papers on the "Revised Version of the Old Testament" by Messrs. Jennings and Lowe, and four......

In The Middle Wa . Ch. By W. Clark Russell. (ghetto And

Winclus.) —Mr. Russell turns aside from the paths of fiction to give us some facts about naval men and things. The papers collected together in this volume are interesting and......