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James Russell Lowell (triibner And Co.) Is A Short...

sketch, by Francis II. Underwood. The illustrations, paper, and type are superior to the narrative, which is eulogistic rather than discriminating.......

A Brief History Of The Indian People, (triibner And Co.),

by Dr. W. W. Hunter, is warmly to be commended as a high-class school- book, and also as an introduction to the other and larger books on the same subject. It is admirably......

Mr. Alfred Rimmer, No Doubt, Intended His Early Homes Of

Prince Albert (Blackwood) to do service as a gift-book. As such, it is likely to be much appreciated. The paper and type are very good, and the illustrations—the subjects of......

Snort? Stoeies. — Whoever Desires To Have A Supper—or, To...

accurate, three meals—of horrors, should read the stories of morbid passion which Mrs. Horace Dobell has published, under the title of Dark Pages. (Remington and Co.)—There is......

The Preface, We Learn That During 1882, Only One Title

in the Peerage, " Netterville," has become extinct, while four new dignities have been created. Fourteen Peers and twenty-seven baronets have died since December 1st, 1881; two......

Under The Title Of England's Essayists (macniven And...

the Rev. Peter Anton writes both with judgment and with enthusiasm of Addison, Bacon, De Quincey, and Lamb. He would, in our opinion, however, have done still better, had he......