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Letter To The Right Hon. B. Disraeli, M.p. By Edward

Romilly, late Chairman of the Board of Audit. (Ridgway.)—There is enough in this letter to make us hope that it will reach its address. But we cannot take upon ourselves to......

The Cambridge Union Society. Inaugural Proceedings....

little book the speeches of Lord Houghton, Professor Selwyn, Professor Fawcett, and the others who took part in opening the Cambridge Union Buildings are collected, with a......

The Tenures Of Kent. By C. L. Elton, Of Oxford

and Lincoln's Inn. (London: J. Parker and Co.)—Mr. Elton's book is so good, that it deserves to be widely known, and so interesting, in spite of an anti- quarian subject, that......

The Treasury Of French Cookery. By Mrs. Toogood....

is a book which ought to be in every household, but which it is hopeless to recommend to every kitche-^ If cooks would only read, mark, learn, and inwardly digest it, we should......

A Manual Of Naval Prize Law. By Godfrey Lushington. (batter-

worths.)—Mr. Lushington in a modest preface puts his volume forward as being designed for the use of naval officers in war time. More than this, he says, it does not attempt ;......

In .7tonorem M.—. By Erastes. (oxford: T. And G. Shrimpton.)

Ecce Homines ! or, a Lije's Quest. (Adams and Francis.)—There was siothing to repay us for the trouble of wading through these two books of verso, except that they were soon at......

Shakespeare Illustrated By Old Authors. By William Low08...

making many books about Shakespeare there is no end. We do. not wish to be uncivil to Mr. Rushton, but he might go on for ever in this quest of parallel passages. And we notice......

A Short Treatise On Sin. By Octavius Glover. (deighton,...

and Co.)—Mr. Glover has boiled down into one short volume the largo work of Professor Julius Miiller, of Halle, called The Christian Doctrine of Sin. The original work has......

Manual Of English History Simplified; Or, Our Country's...

by a Lady. (London, Bfurby.)—The object of this book is to supply an English history at once concise, attractive, and cheap. The first and last of these requirements have......

The Art Of Fishing On The Principle Of Avoiding Cruelty.

By the Rev. Oliver Raymond, LL.B. (Longmans.)—Mr. Raymond's treatise con- tains valuable hints about fishing, as well as moral reflections on the principle he enunciates. His......

John Keble. By J. C. Shairp. (edinburgh : Edmonston And

Douglas.) —This essay appeared in the North British Review, and is now re- printed, with additions. A tender and loving study of a tender and /eying writer, it would at all......

"dr. Hunter V. The Pall Mall Gazette." (c. Mitchell And

Co.)—This is Dr. Hunter's account of his action for libel. The short-hand writers seem to have followed the evidence and the Chief Justice's summing- up correctly, and to have......

Wit And Humour. Poems By The Autocrat Of The...

(J. C. Hotten.)—Dr. Holmes's poems are not new to the English public. If we mistake not, one of those which appear in this collection was quoted nearly fifteen years ago by Miss......

Smith) ; Bishop Colenso's Shilling Arithmetic (longmans)...

Cooper's Waterwitch and Lost of the Mohicans (Routledge); Mr. Forsyth's Sporting Rifle and its Projectiles (Smith, Elder, and Co.); Col J. Robertson's Historical Proofs on the......