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Pinacea. A Handbook Of The Fire And Pines. By Senilis.

(Hatchard.) —This is a revised and enlarged edition of an essay to which the Scottish Arboriculture! Society awarded their prize in 1864, on the subject of the "Introduction and......

Recent Editions Of Homer.*

WE gladly turn from translations to editions of Homer. Trans- lations are but indifferently received by the unlearned public, for whom they are ostensibly intended ; scholars......

Lectures On Literature And Art. (bell And Daldy.)—these...

in the Museum of Irish Industry in the spring of 1865, vary in merit, as most displays of the kind do. Mr. Justice Keogh had the courage to proclaim his admiration of Milton's......

Women Of History. By Eminent Writers. (nimmo,...

volume is a further development of the idea of which we spoke with commendation in our notice of the Men of History. It consists of a series of extracts from well known authors,......

Les Ecrivains Militaires De La France. Par Theodore...

and Co.)—M. Karcher is one of those distinguished Frenchmen who have been thrown upon our shores by the high tides of the reaction, and who have found here a home. Professor at......

Formation Of Lakes, And The Erection Of Bridges. The Author

is a pro- fessional man of experience, and we may add, from the numerous ori- ginal sketches that illustrate the volume, of taste. The book is simply and plainly written, and is......

The Principles Of Value In Exchange Explained And...

Simple and Comprehensive Formula. Two Lectures delivered in the University of Dublin. By Arthur Houston, LL.D., of the Middle Temple, Barrister-at-Law, Whately Professor of......

Current Literature.

Hulseian Lectures. 1865. By Rev. J. Moorhouse, M.A. (Macmillan.) —Four sermons on the union of the divine and human nature in Christ, together with three others by the same......

Gossip About Portraits. By Walter F. Tiffin. (h. G....

we mistake not, the author's patronymic was known in the print trade in the days when we went portrait hunting a long time ago. The Earl of Derby's scheme for amassing national......