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The Bra Almassaclo For 1891 Is Very Attractive. Besides An

obituary and chronicle for 1890, and other information of a useful and "professional" kind, which are naturally looked for in a pro- duction of this sort, it contains a number......

Bench And Bar : Reminiscences Of One Of The Last

of an Ancient. Race, By Mr. Serjeant Robinson. Third edition. (Hurst and Blackett.)—The late Mr. Serjeant Robinson, encouraged by the success of his very entertaining......

The Dramatic Peerage. Compiled By Erskine Reid And...

(General Publishing Company.)—There are armies, it is said, in which all are officers ; so, in the community of the stage, all are peers or peeresses. Hero are 265 pages, and......

The Entr'acte Annual For 1891 Is Notable Chiefly For Mr.

Alfred Bryan's most expressive portrait-illustrations—at once grotesque and realistic—which in themselves tell the theatrical story of 1890. The letterpress, contributed by Mr.......

Brave Heart And True, By Florence Marryat (f. V. White

and Co.), is not a work that greatly commends itself to us. The people therein described are uninteresting, and sometimes inclined to be vulgar ; and we doubt many readers being......

A Journalist's Jottings. By W. Beatty-kingston. 2 Vols....

Hall.)—Mr. Beatty-Kingston, who decorates his title-page with several foreign orders of merit, has collected in these volumes a number of papers contributed to the Daily Tele-......

The" Practical Guide To Algiers, By George W. Harris (george

Philip and Son), is sufficiently commended, by its title, and by the contrast which it suggests to all that we are enduring here. This volume, of handy size for the pocket,......

The Chouans. By1.1. De Balzac. With One Hundred...

wood by Levoi116, from drawings by Julien lo Blant, newly translated into English by George Saintsbury. (Nimmo.)—There are cases in which a translation is bettor than the......

Light Railways. By C. B. Salwey. (e. And. F. N.

Spon.)—Mr. Salwey, who is a practical engineer, shows how and at what cost light railways may be made for exploring and military purposes. The precise point at which it will pay......