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The Open Air. By Richard Jefferies. (cheat) And...

has unmistakably taken the place here which Mr. Burroughs has taken in America, of a thoroughly reliable photographer of Nature in prose. We are glad, therefore, to say that in......

Very Heartily To B3 Recommended Are S4ort Studies From...

(Cassell and Co.), by Various Authors. There is a delightful absence of method in the collection. It consists, in fact, of popular studies of such different scientific subjects,......

The Three Reforms Of Parliament. By William Heaton. (t....

Univin.) — This is a business-like account of the three Reforms, 1832, 1867, and 1885, with an outline of the chief legislation that took place between those dates, and a brief......

Annals Of The Church And Parish Of Aldmonbury. By Charles

Augustus Hulbert, M.A. (Longmana and Co.)—The vicar of Al& monbary, Yorkshire, presents us with one of those local histories which, even when they are, as here, written......

The Secret Memoirs Of Madame La Marquise De Pompadour,...

and arranged by Jules Beaujoint (Remington and Co.), is neither fish nor fowl. In other words, it is neither sufficiently piquant from the anecdotical, nor sufficiently serious......

The Life And Letters Of John, Brown. Edited By F.

B. Sanborn. (S. Low and Co.) —We regret to say that this volume is disappointing, and from the literary—though certainly not from the literal—point of view, rather thin. The "......

A Faire Danzz , Ll. By Esmi.- Stuart. 3 Vols. (hurst And

Blackett.)—Miss Stuart's story is as pleasant and as wholesome a novel as we have read for some time. She tells the love-story of her heroine in a simple, straightforward way ;......