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Life On The Upper Thames.* Mn. Robertson Gives Us In

this handsome volume, resplendent in green and gold, the fruits of a year's study on the Thames, in a series of steel engravings of great beauty from original wood- cuts,......

Current Literature.

CHRISTMAS BOOKS. The English at the North Pole. By Jules Verne. (Routledge.) M. Verne's story, which has already appeared in some serial, has the spirit and interest which we......

Physical Arithmetic.*

THERE is a story told of the late Professor de Morgan that, after examining a school in algebra, and even trigonometry, he asked the head class what they understood by the......