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Bible Music. By Francis Jacox, B.a. (hodder And...

volume consists of compositions which have the look of sermons, that is to say, they are of a length more or less suited to a discourse and have a text at their head. If they......

The 2eneid Of Virgil. Books 1. - Vi. Translated In...

Verse. By G. K. Rickards, M.A. (Blackwood.)—We are disposed to agree with much that Mr. Rickards says on the subject of translating Virgil. No metre could be so well suited to......

Current Literature.

Chefs d'CEuvres of Art and Masterpieces of Engraving. (Sampson Low Co.)—This is a most meritorious work, of which it is difficult to speak with sufficient praise. The scheme,......

Fairy Tales, Old And New.* The Two Gay Little Volumes

before us are, we fancy, but the first instalment of a series of the "Famous Fairy Tales" of all countries with which Messrs. Dean and Son mean to delight their little readers,......

The Portfolio. March. (seeley.)—the Frontispiece To This...

a very fine etching, an "Aged Spaniard," by M. Alphonse Legros. The mechanical execution is excellent, and the expression very noble. It would scarcely be possible to draw a......

Fair To See. By Laurence W. M. Lockhart. 3 Vole.

(Blackwood.) — Fair to See is so pleasant a novel to read that one does not care to ask too curiously whether it is written according to rules of art. Two young English officers......