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A Girl's Destiny, By E. C. Clayton (tinsley Brothers), Is

a tolerably interesting tale, though the incidents throughout are of a well-worn type. A charming girl, devoted to a somewhat myster- ious father ; a fine young man, who comes......

Practical Lessons On Insect Life. By T. Wood. (j. Hughes.)—

An interesting and attractive volume, illustrated by a number of woodcuts, and containing much useful information concerning the life-history and habits of many of our insect......

Messer Agnolo's Household. By Leader Scott. (longmans.)—...

with the domestic life of Florence in the time of Lorenzo dei Medici, and a most graphic and pleasing picture it gives of respectable citizen interiors in the cinquecento......

Health Lectures, Delivered In Manchester. Fifth Series,...

and Salford Sanitary Association has not only continued its system of delivering evening lectures, but has added thereto the very useful supplement of short discourses to......

The Soil Of The Farm. By John Scott And J.

C. Morton. (Brad- bury, Agnew, and Co.)—This small volume belongs to the" Handbook of the Farm Series," and is the fourth instalment of the whole num- ber of six which will......

The Sun : Its Planets And Their Satellites. A Course

of Lecture& upon the Solar System, read in Gresham College, London, 1881-2. By Edmund Ledger. (Stanford.)—Gresham College is generally regarded as an educational Nazareth, from......

We Have Received The Sixth Half-yearly Volume Of The...

a Magazine Devoted to the Study of the Past. (Elliot Stock.)—It is full of interesting matter. Among the articles may be mentioned " The Domesday of Colchester," "Accounts of......

Love's Martyrdom : A Play And Poem. By John Saunders.

(Kegan Paul and Co.)—As a letter from so able a critic as Charles Love's Martyrdom : a Play and Poem. By John Saunders. (Kegan Paul and Co.)—As a letter from so able a critic as......

In The Black Forest, By Charles W. Wood (bentley), Is

a small volume recording the writer's impressions of the scenery and in- habitants of the part of Germany indicated in the title ; but the numerous illustrations, though in a......