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Tales And Legends Of Saxony And Lusatia. By W. Westall.

(Griffith and Farran.)—It is as difficult to review a fairy-tale as to criticise a pantomime. Judging these tales and legends by a very practical test, we may pronounce them all......

Foreign Cage - Birds. By C. W. Gedney. (the Bazaar ....

introduction bespeaks at once the reader's favourable atten- tion. It is evident that he knows his subject well, and that any one wishing to keep birds (and this means also......

Reediford Holm. By Thomas Rowland Skemp....

tale, which is not redeemed from the fault of inanity by the one or two sensational incidents which are introduced into it. Harold Hardman is nothing but a stupid farmer, though......

History Of Nepal. Translated From The Parbs.tiya, By...

Shunker Singh and Pandit Shri Gunanand. With an introductory sketch of the country and people of Nepal, by the Editor, Daniel Wright, M.A. (The University Press, Cambridge.)—It......

The Bride Of Roervig: A Novel. By W. Bergsoe. Translated

from the Danish by Nina Francis. (Samuel Tinsley.) Roervig is a small and nearly uninhabited fishing village on the coast of Zealand, the Bride whose story we have here is Marie......

The Chicicenborough Chit-chat Club. By Kamouraska. B...

farce, however clever and amusing, can scarcely be endured when it is extended to the full limits of a three-volume novel. Here we have the materials which would have made a......