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Books.

MR. AUGUSTINE BIRRELL'S COLLECTED ESSAYS.* THESE volumes should be read through,—but not all at once. The essays are chiefly literary estimates, or, more correctly speaking,......

"moira O'neill's " Verses.* In A Very Interesting Lecture On

"Inter-migration between the Scotch and Irish" recently delivered before the Irish Literary Society, Mr. E. F. Vesey Knox gave some very significant facts and figures with......

Baba.r.*

THE story of Bibar's life is more wonderful, more brilliantly coloured than the Arabian Nights, and it loses little of its excitement in Mr. Stanley Lane-Poole's monograph. The......