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Victor And Vanquished. By Mary Cecil Hay. (hurst And...

—This is a pretty story, with a slight confusion in its law ; but that is not a very serious fault in a lady's noveL The devotion and ex- piation of the sister make the reader......

Current Literature.

the essay on " Medical Charity : its •Extent and Abuses." The facts which the author has collected, and which he arranges in a very telling way, are simply amazing. In the first......

Chapters On Trees : A Popular Account Of Their Nature

and Use. By Mary and Elizabeth Kirby. (Cassell, Petter, and Galpin.)—This small but comprehensive volume is one of the most perfect compilations we have ever met with. It......

Captain Duncan's History Of The Artillery.* The Present...

Captain Duncan's careful and graphic history of the Royal Artillery embraces the period of its most distinguished services, though not, perhaps, of its highest effi- ciency. It......