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Birthday Books.—the Passion For "birthday Books" Seems To...

the increase. It is, to say the least, as little annoy- ing to mankind as anything of the kind could be, far preferable, certainly, to the "Whet-you-like-best" mania, which......

The British Almanac And Companion For 1880 (the...

supplies, as usual, an abundance of useful and interesting matter. The contents of the "Companion to the Almanac" are articles on "The Mint," "Cyprus," "The Temperance......

The Broken Looking-glass ; Or, Mrs. Dorothy Cope's...

Service. By Maria Louisa Charlesworth. (Seeloys.)—We wrongly described this little book last week as being a second edition, and as having been published by the Religious Tract......

Current Literature.

CHRISTMAS AND NEW YEAR'S BOOKS, , ETC. Risen by Perseverance; or, Lives of Self - made Men. By Robert Cochrane. (Nimmo and Co.)—The biographies here set forth are those of......

Tennyson's Songs, With Music. (c. Kogan Paul And Co.)—mr. W.

G. Claims, the editor of this work, has undertaken a most arduous task. Assisted as he has been by some thirty-six well known and distinguished authors, the volume is one which......

Messrs. Kogan Paul And Co. Have Issued An Exquisite Little

edition of Tennyson's In Afenioriami, in white binding and on rough paper. It is perfectly printed, and as fit for the pocket as the drawing-room.......