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Logic. By Professor Stanley Jevons. (science Primers.)...

Co.)—We might have been sure that the author of this little book, a popular manual of a most abstruse subject, would do his work well; and he has done it, too, without that......

The New Girl (griffith And Ferran), A Tale Of School-life,

by "M. E. B.," is an easily-flowing story, adapted to interest and benefit those for whom it is intended, and is well illustrated, in the completely realistic style.—A Wayside......

Prometheus The Fire-giver. (chatto And Windus.)—the Story...

a wonderfully fascinating one, and the loss of the first and last plays of the famous Trilogy of 2Eschylus will always be keenly felt by the great poet's admirers. It has, as is......

Ellis's Catullus.* Mn. Ems's Catullus And Mr. Munro's...

out from the common throng of school and college editions of the Classics,— " Quales lenta solent inter viburna enpressi." And if Mr. Ellis lacks the genial fire and the wide......

Current Literature.

Hamartia : an Inquiry into the Nature and Origin of Evil. (Elliot Stock.)—A very thoughtful pamphlet, well deserving the attention of all students of the Bible, as well as of......

The Epic Of Hades, In Three Books. By The Author

of "Songs of Two Worlds." With seventeen designs in photo-mezzotint, by George It. Chapman. (C. Kagan Paul and Co.)—We are glad to see this fine poem, on the whole, finely......

Running Away. A Story For Children. (james Nisbet And Co.)—

This is a very spirited and charming little tale,—a moral tale, we admit, professedly so, indeed,—but so full of life and common-sense, that it is not, like most moral tales,......