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The Portfolio, January. (seeley.)—this Magazine Has Taken...

year a new departure that promises largely to increase its usefulness. It ceases, in fact, to be a magazine, becoming, instead, a monthly series of monographs on artistic......

The Catholic Directory, 1894. (burns And Oates.) — This...

usual information about the Roman Catholic Com- munity in Great Britain, the calendar, lists of Peers and Baronets, of clergy, schools, &c. The number of Catholics is estimated,......

Generally Used For Purposes Of Quick Reference, And It Has

also been employed at the Universities as a text-book. It is an admirable sketch ; but none the less it contains the result of a good deal of independent work. The edition in......

History Of England And The British Empire. By Edgar...

M.A. (Frederick Warne and Co.)—We should say that this stout but not unwieldly volume of nearly eleven hundred pages, well supplied as it is with maps, genealogical tables, and......

Current Literature.

The Journal of Education, 1893. (W. Rice.)—We are glad again to commend to all readers interested in education the yearly volume of this excellent periodical, by far the best of......

George Routledge And Sons Have Just Issued A Singularly...

little edition of The Essays of Elia and The Last Essays of Ella. The books are small, so small that they can be carried with ease in the inside pocket of an ordinary coat, and......

The Churchwardens' Accounts Of St. Mary's, Reading.*

IT is matter for some little surprise that, in the renewed and intensified interest now prevailing in record publica- tions of every kind, parish registers should have received......