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A Tiger Lily. By L. C. Mervyn. Two Vols. (samuel

Tinsley.)--The heroine tells her own story, and is at great pains to make her readers understand that she was very ugly and ill-tempered, yet not without indicating a reserved......

Studies Of The Times Of Abraham. By The Rev. U.

G. Tomkins. (S. Bagster and Sons.)—This is a book of very considerable value. First, we have thirteen pages of illnstrntions drawn, from Assyrian, Egyptian, and Babylonian......

Current Literature.

Coligny. By Walter Besant. (Marcus Ward.)—Coligny is a familiar name to most Englishmen, yet, strange to say, the little volume before us is the first narrative of his life as......

The. Modern, World. By J. A. G. Barton. (blackwood And

Sons.)--This is a very praiseworthy attempt to condense into a compass of about 300 pages an account of the principal countries of the modern world. it gives, of course, a very......

Picturesque Lodges, By John Birch, Architect (blackwood),...

its title-page as " a series of designs for gate-lodges, park entrances, keepers', gardeners', bailiffs', grooms', upper and nndor servants' lodges, and other rural residences,"......

Total Abstinence. By Benjamin Ward Richardson, M.d....

steadfastly maintains his cause, against what must be called a great preponderance of professional opinion. In every way he deserves a hearing; and though ho may not make as......

Of The Heroic Ago Of Ireland As Embodied In The

border-tales and songs. There is some grace in Mr. O'Grady's rendering of these, and whether or not we see ground for his implicit belief in the exist- once of his heroes and......

Many Persons Now Enjoying, Or Trying To Enjoy, Their Annual

sojurn at the sea may road with profit the Hygiene of the Sea, trans- lated from the Italian of Dr. Victor Grassi, by Frederic W. Wright. (Bemroso and Sons.)--If the author is......