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Jerusalem : The Holy City. By Colonel Sir Charles W.

Wilson. With a new Introduction. (J. S. Virtue and Co.)—The letterpress and illustrations of this volume originally appeared in" Pic- turesque Palestine." Sir Charles Wilson has......

The December Number Of The Universal Review Is Full Of

bright and lively, though often rather thin papers. It begins with a. curious article on "The Progress of Man," which we should be half-inclined to attribute to some follower of......

Twelve Etchings Contributed To The " Portfolio" By Paul...

Bajon. With a Brief Memoir and Notes. By F. G. Stephens. (Seeley and Co.)—M. Rajon died, in the prime of his powers, last June, of an attack of pleurisy contracted at the burial......

Our Nurses, And The Work They Have To Do. By

H. C. O'Neill and. Edith A. Barnett. (Ward, Lock, and Co.)—This is an admirable little handbook for nurses. Not that any handbook can teach the art of nursing any better than a......

The Origin Of Plum - Pudding, And Other Fairy - Tales. By...

(Ward and Downey.)—These fairy-tales are sufficiently amusing, though they are not improved by the atrocious puns with which they are besprinkled. Some, surely, of these......

The Floral King. By Albert Alberg. (w. H. Allen And

Co.) —Carl Linnaeus, whose family name, changed by the pastor, his father, was Sugemar, was born in 1707, and died, worn out in mind, in 1778. On the whole, he seems to have led......

Oxford. Illustrated By John Fulleylove, Ri., With Notes...

Humphrey Ward, MA. (Fine Art Society.)—The illustrations to this volume consist of thirty full-page reproductions in litho- graph of drawings by Mr. Fulleylove, and of ten......

The Minor Poems Of John Milton. Illustrated By Samuel...

(Seeley and Co.)—The illustration of Milton's Minor Poems was a cherished scheme of Samuel Palmer ; and his son gives in the preface to this volume a very interesting account of......