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The Year's Art, 1894. Compiled By A. R. Carter. (j.

S. Virtue and Co.)—This volume, the " fifteenth annual issue," continues the excellent tradition of its predecessors. It gives all the information that can be desired about art......

Birds In A Village. By W. H. Hudson. (chapman And

Hall.)— We miss in this collection of essays the brightness and wide view of Nature which distinguished Mr. Hudson's admirable works on the plains of La Plata and Patagonia. The......

Current Literature.

The Expositor. Edited by the Rev. W. Robertson Nicoll. Vol. VIII., Fourth Series. (Hodder and Stoughton.)—The volume opens with a highly interesting letter from Professor......

The Posthumous Works Of Thomas De Quincey. Edited By...

H. Japp, LL.D. Vol. II.—" Conversation and Cole- ridge, with other Essays." (Heinemann.)—It is satisfactory, no doubt, to have before one all the works of a great writer which......

Juliet's Lovers. By Mabel Collins. 3 Vols. (ward And...

—It is hardly necessary to say anything about this novel, save that it tells an exceedingly unpleasant, story in very indifferent English. The masculine characters, with one......

Thom's Official Directory, 1894. (alexander Thom And Co.,...

an " official Directory " of the United King- dom in general, and of Ireland in particular. The information on Irish matters is full and interesting, and not to be found, we......

Prom Paddington To Penzance. By Charles G. Harper....

Windus.)—This is the record of an excursion, made during the past summer by the author and a comrade, from London to the Land's End. Various means of locomotion were employed,......

The Royal Blue - Book. (kelly And Co.)—this Convenient...

attained its seventy-second year. So old an inhabitant of London does not need any introduction. Its speciality (a guide to the knowledge of the official•world, of the " Upper......

What Our Daughters Can Do For Themselves. By Mrs. H.

Coleman Davidson. (Smith, Elder, and Co.)—Yet another book on the vexed question of occupations for the daughters of Great Britain, the surplus female population that is more......