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Current Literature.

Elizabethan Sonnet Cycles. Edited by Martha Foote Crow. "Delia,' by Samuel Daniel ; "Diana," by Henry Constable. (Kagan Paul and Co.)—We cannot agree with Mrs. Crow that Daniel......

Nooks And Corners Of Pembrokeshire. Drawn And Described...

Thornhill Timmins. (Elliot Stock.)-1 book for which the same hand furnishes both the literary and the artistic material has a great advantage, conspicuous, one may say, in this......

Bosnia, Herzegovina, And Dalmatia. By Robert Munro, M.a....

Sons.)—Dr. Munro attended a congress of anthro- pologists and archeologists held at Sarajevo in 1894. In this volume he has given an account of its proceedings, and has also.......

Light Railways.* We Are So Long Accustomed In England To

railways of standard gauge with heavy rails and ponderous rolling-stock, that we have come to look upon this sort of railway as part of the scheme of the universe, and to......

The Romance Of The Woods. By E. J. Whishaw. (longmans

and Co.)—The " Woods " are Russian, and the experiences which Mr. Whishaw relates of them, and of various streams and lakes, with not a few sketches of Russian villages......

The Spaniel - Prince. From The French Of M. Laboulaye. By...

E. Robinson. (Simpkin, Marshall, and Co.) — Prince- Jacinth, at his christening, is presented by the Fairy of Night with the gifts of intelligence, strength, and beauty. This......

The History Of Rome, 133 - 78. By W. F. Mason, M.a.

(W. B. Clive.)—" The Decline of the Oligarchy" is the subject of Mr. Mason's narrative, which begins with the agrarian proposals of Tiberius Gracchus, and ends with the death of......

The Squire. By Mrs. Parr. (cassell And Co.)—the Story Doea

not move on perhaps quite as quickly as it might, or as we have got into the habit of requiring in these days of hurry. But it is an interesting story, briskly written, with now......

Chronicon Henrici Knighton. Edited By Joseph Rawson...

II. "Master of the Rolls Series."—After an in- terval of between five and six years, Dr. Lumby completes. his edition of Knighton's (alias Cuitlion's) Chronicle, giving in his......