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Sketches And Studies : Descriptive And Historical. By...

King, B.A. (John Murray.)—This volume contains the occasional contributions made to some of our best periodical literature through a period of about eighteen years (1856-64).......

The Hill Forts, Stone Circles, And Other Structural...

Ancient Scotland. By Christian Maclagan. (Edmonston and Douglas.)—This very handsome volume, the materials for which have been collected with the utmost industry, must always......

Remains Of Lost Empires. By P. V. N. Myers. (sampson

Low.)— This volume contains the observations of a traveller among the ruins of Palmyra, Nineveh, Babylon, and Persepolis, and some historical ob- servations on the subjects......

The Manuale Clericorum. By The Rev. F. G. Lee. (hogg

and Co.)— This book is an abridgment of the notorious "Directoriam Anglicanum,' and does not therefore need to be any further characterised. The frontispiece is enough. It......

Of Ireland To The Close Of The Twelfth Century. By

R. B. Brash, archi- tect. (W. B. Kelly, Dublin.) The interest of this book is, of course, mainly artistic and antiquarian, but it throws a light also on history, "The native......