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A Historical Geography Of The British Colonies. Vols....

IV., "South and East Africa." By C. P. Lucas. (Clarendon Press.)— Mr. Lucas's two volumes dealing with the history and geography of British South and East Africa aie full of......

The Age Of Wordsworth.* The Authors Of The Two Handbooks

already published in this series had one advantage denied to Professor Herford. Dryden was indisputably the chief literary figure of the age covered by Dr. Garnett, and Pope had......

Current Literature.

Puppets at Large. By F. Anstey. (Bradbury, Agnew, and Co.) —These humorous dialogues and monologues reprinted from Punch contain some of the funniest things ever written by Mr.......

The Pocket Volume Of Selections From Browning (smith,...

Co.) has only one serious objection. It is too fat and heavy to go into the pocket, and it has notes which are not wanted in a volume intended to be always at hand. But in......