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Squire Harrington's Secret. By George W. Garrett. 2 Vols....

Tinsley.)—One would think, after reading this book, that Mr. Garrett bad never written a novel before. The incidents are of the most familiar kind (we mean familiar in novels,......

The Economy Of Thought. By T. Hughes. (hodder And...

—Tho title of this book strikes us as somewhat misleading. It would seem to suggest a work on the most effective methods of applying thought to any given subject, whereas the......

We Have To Notice A Very Handsome Volume, The Art

Journal for 1875 (Virtue). It contains nearly four hundred pages, and furnishes the reader not only with much valuable and interesting matter relating to art, but with an......

Stanley Meredith : A Novel. By Sabina. (s. Tinsley.)—this Is

an extremely foolish book. The hero of it is a poet, of whose insanity the reader is persuaded from his very first appearance. He makes wild love to his publisher's daughter, is......

Is He The Man? By W. Clark Russell. 3 Vols.

(Tinsley Brothers.) —Mr. Russell belongs to the school of novelists of which Mr. Wilkie Collins may be said to be the representative. He even uses that gentleman's device—which......

We Have To Acknowledge The First Volume Of The Plays

of William Shakespeare, edited and annotated by Charles and Mary Cowden Clarke, and illustrated by H. C. Selene. (Cassell and Co.) The names of Cowden Clarke and Selena seem......

Wonders Of The Physical World, The Glacier, The Iceberg, The

Icefield, and the Avalanche. (T. Nelson and Sons.)—Physical geography is now a universally recognised subject in the curriculum of our schools. The object of the present work is......