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Six Months In The Ranks ; Or, The Gentleman Private.

(Smith and Elder.)—The author of this book describes his antecedents and explains his motives with all the candour that could be desired. He enlisted not because he had a......

Wanderings, South And East. By Walter Coote. (sampson Low...

Co.)—Mr. Coote divides the record of his four years' wanderings into four parts,—his joarneyings and observations in Australasia, in Polynesia, in China and Japan, and in South......

Novels.—a Poor Squire. By Holme Lee. 2 Vols. (smith And

Elder.)—It is always a pleasure to read one of " Holme Lee's " novels,. a pleasure not a little increased when we turn to them from the tedious frivolities or dismal moods of......

England On The Defensive. By Captain J. T. Barrington....

Paul, Trench, and Co.)—Captain Barrington works out in great detail an imaginary campaign fought by an enemy on the soil of England. He supposes our Fleet to have been disabled,......