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Culture In Early Scotland. By James Mackinnon. '(williams...

is a useful, informing, and interesting, rather than original, book,—based on careful reading, and free from viewiness. Mr. Mackinnon, like everybody else, has his own......

Master Don Gesualdo. By Giovanni Verge. (osgood,...

is evidently a very good piece of translation, but the wisdom of its publication may be questioned. It is un- mitigated. Italian Zolaism, an unrelieved picture of moral squalor.......

Princess Heliotrope. By " Pynx Gryph." (fisher...

a very clever and amusing book, although the writer is per. haps a trifle too anxious to manufacture fun of the kind favoured by audiences that gloat over opera-bouffe. Thus......

Town And Home Gardening. By Mrs. T. Chamberlain, F.b.h.s....

and Co.)—The preface to this little voluine states that it is "compiled chiefly from notes of lectures on 'Town Gardening,' given at the Portman Rooms in the spring of 1891, and......