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A Short History Of Parliament. By B. C. Skottowe, M.a.

(Swan Sonnenschein and Co.)—Mr. Skottowe's book may be recommended as dealing very carefully and completely with one important side of Constitutional history. We are inclined to......

On The Banks Of The Dee. A Legend Of Cheater

concerning the Fate of Harold. Preserved in the Harleian MS., British Museum. By Parnell Greene. (F. V. White and (lo.)—This story is based on the legend (which would appear not......

Mr. Ackermann (regent Street) Sends Us A Packet Of The

Christmas Cards of Messrs. Prang, of Boston, Massachusetts, which contain very carefully executed figures or groups of figures, birds or groups of birds, landscapes, Scc., in......

New Editions. —messrs. Cassell And Co. Have Republished,...

a lower price, the five volumes of Professor Henry Morley's "Library of English Literature." We have had occasion to notice these as they appeared, and we need now only recall......

We Have Received Another Volume (vol. V., Part Ii.) Of

an under- taking to which we have repeatedly given a few words of well- deserved praise, The Encyclopcedic Dictionary. (Cassell and Co.) The spirit of this work, we may take the......

Joel Barlow. By Charles Burr Todd. (g. P. Patnam's Sons.)—

Mr. Barlow was a poet of what may be called the pre-Cowper style, his principal production, "The Columbiad," being an epic which it would not be unfair to rank with the......