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The Idylls Of Theocritus Translated Into English Verse....

Henry Hallard. (Longmans.)—These are fair translations ; more we cannot say for them. They want point and compression. In the " Adoniazusae," for instance :— "The cats delight......

Bright Celestials, By John Coming Chinaman. (t. Fisher...

Lamont, who signs the preface, and makes various acknowledgments of assistance and co-operation, describes his book as "a story of Chinese life at home and abroad in relation to......

Horse-racing In England. By Robert Black. (bentley And...

Black's Horse.Raciing will be of more interest to the racing snan than to the general reader, but containing, as it does, a general sketch—a real history would include many......

The Cantisards. By Charles Tylor. (simpkin, Marshall, And...

as a consistent Friend, and therefore an opponent of war, deplores the revolt of the Camisards. The appeal to arms which was made in 1689 he describes as a fatal mistake, and he......

Waymarks In Church .history. By William Bright, D.d....

for which Canon Bright supplies these " waymarks," may appear sufficiently long, for it extends, though with large omitted spaces, from St. Irentaus and his anti-Gnostic polemic......

History Of The Royal Buckhounds. Compiled By J. P. Iiore.

(Remington and Co.)—Mr. Here has hunted up his matter with the most praiseworthy diligence, and to these stores of informa- tion must be attributed a certain confusion and......