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The Insect World.*

THERE are many indications that an interest in the Natural Sciences is making great and rapid progress in the popular mind, and few phenomena of our time have a more hopeful......

The Diamond On The Hearth; Or, The Story Of Sister

Anne. By Marian James. Second Edition. (Tames Hogg and Son.)—The words "second edition " dispense us from a detailed account of this pleasant and un- affected, though not wholly......

Tinsley's Magazine. October. The Most Noticeable Thing In...

which has a general London-in-the-middle-of-September look, is the essay on Mr. Dallas's edition of Clarissa, a very able and eloquent criticism of Richardson's great romance.......

Current Literature.

The Search after Livingstone. By E. D. Young. Revised by the Rev. Horace Waller, F.R.G.S. (Letts.)—This little book gives us as vivid a picture of African travel as we have over......