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A Yacht Voyage Round England. By William H. G. Kingston..

(Religions Tract Society.)—Mr. Kingston tells a very pleasant story of how the Lively' and the 'Dolphin ' sailed from Portsmouth west- ward, and approached it again from the......

Breach Of Promise : Its History And Social...

Charles J. MacColla. (Pickering.)—It is to be regretted that the• author of this little volume has been caught by the passion for dull jokes, which seems to dominate all who......

Lessons On Clothing. By Mrs. W. T. Greenup. (bemrose And'

Sons.)—A little volume of sensible advice about the choosing of materials for dress, the making, the repairing, and the keeping of it.. Mrs. Greennp, like a thousand moralists......

Under The Red Ensign. By Thomas Gray. (simpkin, Marshall,...

Co.)—A little volume full of plain practical directions for all who. are thinking of sending a lad to sea, or for lads who are themselves looking forward to that career. It......

Current Literature.

The Cambridge Bible for Schools the Epistle to the Romans. Edited by Horace C. G. Moule, M.A. (The University Press, Cam- bridge.)—Mr. Monle is what may be called a " high "......

The Man Of Many Daughters. By The Late Madame Clara

de Chitelain. (Griffith and Farran.)—This novel was first published twenty-four years ago, and had then a certain success, which was not undeserved. The story is a farce, rather......

J. M. W. Turner.*

WE consider that the chapter entitled " Introductory " is a great flaw, if it is not a blot, on an otherwise first-rate memoir of Turner of a popular kind. The two contrasted......