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Two Excellent Selections, Between Which It Is Not Easy To

make a choice,—one, A Poetry Book of Modern Poets, by Amelia B. Edwards (Longmans), and Short Readings from. English Poetry, by Helen A. Hertz (Rivington). The objects of the......

Eldmuir : An Art Story Of Scottish Home-life, Scenery, And

Inci- dent. By Jacob Thompson, Jun. (Sampson Low and Co.)—This story is written by way of text to the pictures of Mr. Jacob Thomp- son, Senior. Justice is hardly done to the......

Poor Papa : A Kew American Story. (hodder And Stoughton.)—

This "New American Story " is very like some old ones that we have read,—notably, like " Helen's Babies," but not so amusing or so absurd, according as our readers may have......

The Lives Of The Greek Heroines. By Louisa Menzies. (bell

and Sons.)—Miss Menzies has found—not, indeed, a new subject, for this is impossible, in so well-known a region—but a new combination of subjects, and has made good use of her......

The Pyrotechnist's Treasury ; Or, Complete Art Of Making...

by Thomas Kentish (Chatto and Windt's), is sufficiently described by its title. We quote from the preface a passage which may set at rest certain apprehensions not unlikely to......

A History Of Our People, For Jewish Boys And Girls.

By " K. M." (Vallentine.)—The writer passes very rapidly over the earlier part of the five centuries between the return from the Captivity and the Christian era. The wars of the......

Greeks And Goths : A Study On The Runes. By

Isaac Taylor, M.A. (Longmans.)—Runic inscriptions, as they are called, are found scat- tered from the Danube to the Orkneys, the Runes being the ancient alphabets of certain......

The School-boy. By Oliver Wendell Holmes....

at the Centennial Celebration of Phillips's Academy, Andover, Massachusets, a school which had the honour of educating the writer, and which possibly is in part indebted for the......

The Sovereign. Princes And Chiefs Of Central India. By G.

R. Aberigh-Mackay. Vol. I. (Thacker and Co., Calcutta.)—This first volume is partly introductory, containing "a brief account of the different branches of the administration......

The Little Pilgrim, Revised And Illustrated By Helen...

and Ferran), is a story told in what we cannot but call in- different verse, but prettily illustrated in outline, of how a little girl is seized with a desire to emulate the......

Uncle John Vassar ; Or, The Fight Of Faith. By

his Nephew, the Rev. T. E. Vassar. (Dickinson.)—" Uncle John Vassar " was an American "Revivalist," and a man of no common type ; devoted to his work, with an absolute and......