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From The Foam Of The Sea. By Salvatore Farina. Translated

from the Italian by Marcellino. (Charing Cross Publishing Company.)-- A somewhat curious story of Italian life, turning on a situation which we certainly should not like to see......

Thomas Chalmers : A Biographical Study. By James Dodds....

book was published ten years ago, and is now, we suppose, though we see no intimation of its being so, a new edition, reprinted. A "Biographical Study" is apt to show, not so......

Peregrinus Proteus. By J. M. Cotterill. (t. And T....

time ago Mr. Cotterill wrote an article to prove that the Epistle to Diognetus was a forgery. The idea has grown upon him. The volume before us is intended to show the same......

The History Of The Gwyder Paniiltj. (woodfall And...

John Wynne, who flourished about 1600 A.D., and was one of King James's baronets, wrote this history of his family, while the present and former-editors have enriched it with......

Our Public Offices. By Charles Marvin. (samuel...

an amusing book, aud makes disclosures which, after all allowance made for the hostile animus of the writer, show a grotesquely absurd state of things. Mr. Marvin, whose name......

A Sequel To Ladies' Work : How To Sell It.

By Zeta. (Hatchards.) --A very sensible little volume, admirable not only for the hints which it gives, but for the plain-speaking with which it tells people what kind of work......

British Goblins : Welsh Folk-lore, Fairy Mythology,...

By Wirt Sikes. (Sampson Low and Co.)—Itwould be rash to say that there is more superstition in Wales than in England. One hears things often enough that might make us hesitate.......

Vanity Fair Album. Eleventh Series. (vanity Fair...

little or nothing to say that is new about this publication. The same artists, " Ape " and "Spy," give us their weekly present- ment of persons more or less eminent or......

What Is An Index ? A Pew Notes On Indexes

and Indexers. By 'Henry B. Wheatley, F.S.A. (Published for the Index Society, by Longmans, Green, and Co.)—Mr. Wheatley gives a sketch of the history of indexing, and then......