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The Herb - Moon. By John Oliver Hobbes. (t. Fisher...

when he has said that this novel is fall of good things, has little more to add. Susan is very nearly as good as Mrs. Poyser, not so sententious, perhaps, but almost as......

Watford's County Families Of The United Kingdom (chatto...

has reached its thirty-seventh year. The editor tells us in his preface that "about one hundred and twenty names have been removed from the book in consequence of the sale of......

A General Freight And Passenger Post. By James Lewis Cowles:

(G. P. Putnam's Sons.)—Mr. Cowles propounds here a huge scheme for the nationalisation of railways. He writes for readers in the States, and much of his argument is founded on......

Book Prices Current. December, 1895, To November, 1896....

(Elliot Stock.)—Forty-seven thousand two hundred and sixty- eight lots of books fetched in this year £80,111, giving a some- what high average of £1 13s. 10d. per lot, due,......

The Literary Year-book, 1897. Edited By F. G. Allah). (g.

Allen.)—" This," says the editor, " is a first attempt at a Year-Book of Literature." Something of the kind, however, has always formed part of the "Annual Register." Of the......

Current Literature.

The Life and Works of Robert Burns. Edited by Robert Chambers. Revised by William Wallace. Vol. IV. (W. and R. Chambers.)—There is not much to be said with regard to the fourth......

Publications Of The Week.

Andrews (W.), England in the Days of Old, 8vo (Andrews)' 7/6 Atherton (G. i, Patience Sparhawk and her Times, cr 8vo (Lane) 4/6 Bailey (M. B.), A New Industry, Svo (Simplrin)......