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True To The Core ; A Romance Of '93. By

C. J. Hamilton. 2 vols. (F. V. White and Co.)—The Rebellion of '93 is not an attractive sub- ject. To an English reader, at least, it is difficult to know where one's sympathy......

The Westminster Review, October. The First Article In...

is a plain-spoken utterance in "Great Britain, the United States, and - the Irish Question." The writer sets forth very strongly, but, to our minds, not at all too strongly,......

Current Literature.

Aunt Judy's Magazine for 1883. This year's volume of Aunt Judy's Magazine, containing contributions from Mrs. Ewing, Mrs. Molesworth, and other well-known writers, is, on the......

Folk Tales Of Bengal. By The Rev. Lal Behari Day.

(Macmillan.) —These stories, collected at the suggestion of Sir Richard Temple, were taken down from the mouths of various natives of Bengal, five in all, two of them being......

Forbidden To Marry. By Mrs. G. Linnatus Banks. 3 Vols.

(F. V. White and Co.)—Mrs. Linnasus Banks writes realistic novels, not of the hideous kind with which M. Zola disgraces literature, but thoroughly wholesome and sound of tone.......

The Quatrains Of Omar Khay Om. The Persian Text, With

an Eng- lish Verse Translation. By C. II. Whinfield, M.A. (Traner and Co.) —This is one of the most intetesting volumes in the "Oriental Series" to which it belongs. Omar al......