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Boyhood, Adolescence, And Youth. By L4on Tolstoi....

Popoff. (Elliot Stock.)—A curious, photographic picture of the author's life, covering some ten years, beginning shortly after his tenth birthday, and ending with his being......

Current Literature.

Burdett's Hospital Annual, 1890. Edited by Henry C. Burdett. (The Hospital Office.)—This Annual contains, as usual, a great amount of interesting and valuable information. The......

Acrobats And Mountebanks. By H. Le Roux And J. Gamier.

Translated from the French by A. P. Morton. (Chapman and Hall.)—The title-page adds, " with 233 illustrations," a matter so important in relation to the book that we call......

Two Volumes Of The Excellent Series Of " Popular County

His- tories " (Elliot Stock) may be mentioned together. These are A History of Cumberland, by Richard S. Ferguson, M.A., and A History of Warwickshire, by Sam. Timmins, F.S.A.......

Among The Nairs.* There Is But Little Strangeness Left In

the India which is " done " nowadays by the tourist refugees from the winter of our ever-growing discontent ; but a good deal still lingers in the " Model State," as the......