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Be Above The Experience Of Most Of Us, And So

low in its merits as a work of fiction as to be beneath the reading of most of us. We give this as our opinion after a careful examination of the three volumes. The first page......

Bourne's Handy Assurance Directory, 18813. By William...

and London.)—This volume oontains a collection of matter that has been published from time to time in a periodical conducted by the author, and bearing the title of the Handy......

Good, Bad, And Indifferent : A Novel. 3 Vols.. By

Major James Fox Brongh, R.H.A. (Remington. and Co.)—We are afraid this will not be found a very entertaining novel, and if it proves wanting in interest, it will not be redeemed......

The Two Last Volumes (twenty-fifth And Twenty-sixth) Of...

edition of The Works of William W. Thackeray (Smith, Elder, and Co.), contain " miscellaneous essays," i.e., reviews, tales, a lecture on "Charity and Humour" (to our mind, the......

Love, The Pilgrim. By May Crommelin. 3 Vole. (hurst And

Blackett.)—This is a very sensational and very trashy novel. The sensationalism quite transcends any ordinary type. The brutal and disgusting vagaries of a madman figure among......

We Have Received From Messrs. Gilbert, Wood, And Co.,...

in this country of the French journal L'Art, a folio volume, Les Styles, Notices par Paul Ronaix. It contains seven hundred engravings illustrative of architectural and......

Only Or.e Other : A Novel. 2 Vols. By Frederick

Warren. (Remington and Co.)—We have found these two volumes very uninteresting, and very ordinary in all respects. It seems to us that the tale would not be worth the telling,......

Current Literature.

Jravierde Maistrs's Les Prisonniers du Caucase, and Le Ldpreuc de la Cite d' Assts. "French Classics for English Students," No. VIII. Edited, with•Introduction and Notes, by......

The English Illustrated Magazine, 1885 - 86. (macmillan...

attractive feature, perhaps, in this volume is " Sir Roger de Coverley, from the Spectator," admirably illustrated with en- gravings after drawings by Mr. Hugh Thomson. Mr. W.......