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The Rev. Timothy Harley, F.r.a.s., Who Writes Moon-lore...

is endowed with a capacity for collecting, assimilating, and making the most of ont-ofthe.way knowledge. It is not quite in jocularity that he styles this volume "a contribution......

In Unique Traditions Of Scotland, By John Gordon Barbour...

Adams, and Co.), we have one of those new editions which are almost, if not quite, as interesting as strictly new books. It throws a curious side-light on the fairydom (the......

Documents Illustrative Of American History, 1606-1863....

by Howard W. Preston. (Putnam and - Sons, New York and London.)—This is a collection of documents which the student of American history, as Mr.- Preston calls the history of the......

We Have Received, And Mast Be Content, For The Present,

to pass with a very brief descriptive notice, The Collected Works of Dante Gabriel Rossetti. Edited, with Preface and Notes, by William M. resetti. 2 vols. (Ellis and......

Messis Vita Gleanings Of Song From A Happy Life. By

John Stuart Blackie. (Macmillan and Co.)—The Emeritus Professor of Greek in the University of Edinburgh was born, we believe, in 1809; but his latest volume of verse exhibits......

Anchor-watch Yarns. By Edmund Downey. (ward And Downey.)...

yarns " differ materially from the regulation sea-story. They deal neither with startling incidents, deadly perils, nor romantic adventures, and many readers will doubtless deem......