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Long's Decline Of The Roman Republic.* Taus Instalment Of...

Long's history of the fall of the Roman Republic narrates the events of only nine years, B.C. 58-50, and neither begins nor ends at any well marked point. It begins with......

Current Literature.

Modern Turkey. By J. Lewis Farley. (Hurst and Blackett.)—Mr. Farley's book is divided into two parts. In the first he has "endeavoured to point out the benefits to health that......

Bound The Table. By " The G. 0." (horace Cox.)—the Reader

might suppose that this book had something to do with King Arthur and his "table round." We may enlighten him by quoting the rest of the title. page,—." Notes on Cookery and......

Beauty And The Beast, And Tales Of Home. By Bayard

Taylor. (Sampson Low and Co.)—" Beauty and the Beast" is a tale of Russian life as it was rather more than a hundred years ago in Southern Russia. "The facts are borrowed," says......

Naw Edmons. — The Paston Letters, 1122-1509, A.d. Edited...

Gairdner. (5 Queen Square, Blooinsbury.)—We have before us the first volume of this very useful reprint, which we may say is pre- sented to the public in a very useful and......