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Not While She Lives. By Mrs. Alexander Fraser. 2 Vols.

(Tinsley.) —This is one of the books from which we cannot conceive deriving either pleasure or profit. An English courtesan of a very coarse and vulgar type, whose proceedings......

A Golden Treasury Of Greek Prose. By R. S. Wright,

M.A., and J. E. L. Shadwell, M.A. (Clarendon Press.)—There is a great difference of opinion about the utility of books of extracts for the purposes of a teacher. There are......

Scenes In Court.*

WE have headed our review with the title of one of the sections of this book, and not with the title of the book itself, because neither illustrations nor text add anything to......

Current Literature.

Piccadilly : a Fragment of Contemporary Biography. By Lawrence Oliphant. (Blackwood.)—" Personally," says Mr. Oliphant of his book, "I can be in no way affected by its fate, nor......