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Yzembooxs.-debrett'a Peerage, Baronetage, Knightage, And...

by R. H. Mair, LL.D. (Dean and Son.) -From tbe profane to the one hundred and seventy-fourth edition of this useful work, and oldeet serial extant, we learn that in 1886, 12......

Current Literature.

We may commend to our readers a series of little manuals, pub- lished by Messrs. Cassell and Co., under the title of "Helps to Belief." Four of these have come under our notice,......

Mr. Lowell's Addresses.*

THE faculty of true literary criticism is the rarest, the most peculiar of gifts. Literary sympathy, the power of analysis, good taste, sound and proportionate judgment, are......