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A Fine Old English Gentleman, Exemplified In The Life And

Character Davies makes "his fine old English gentleman" the occasion of some fine new English writing, which wo do not by any means admire. His opening sentence, which begins......

Shakespeare's Plutarch. By The Rev. Walter W. Skeet....

book, which goes over part of the same ground as the " Shake- speare Library," contains such Plutarch's Lives (as translated by North) as illustrate Shakespeare's plays. These......

The Holy Truth ; Or, The Coming Reformation. By H.

J. Browne. (Arthur Hall.)—" While the clergy," says Mr. Browne in his preface, "preach what they believe, I state what I know." This wo find to be spiritualism, the revelations......

Social &leanings. By Mark Boyd. (longmans.)—mr. Boyd Has...

heard. many good jokes and good stories, as well as many bad and dull ones, in his life. Unhappily ha does not seem to see the difference between them. Hence a•book which, since......

We Have To Notice Of Law Text-books The Supreme Court

of Judicature Acts of 1873 and 1875. By Sir Patrick Colquhonn. (Clayton.) In this volume we have the Acts themselves, the orders and rules of Court, for which the editor......

The Memorials Of Liverpool, By J. A. Piston, 2 Vols.

(Longmans), is the second edition of a careful and complete work which seems to have met with some, at least, of the success which it deserves. Mr. Picton's first volume is "......

South-kensington Art Handbooks. (chapman And....

account of the principal antique and medians' remains of ivory-carving, by the editor of the series. These are principally Consular diptyche, whioh, by a little alteration,......

P. Terentii Afri Andria. Edited By T. L. Papillon....

—This is a new edition of a volume which appeared a few years ago in the series of the Catena Classicorum. The introduction has been enlarged by a section in which the difficult......