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Free Town Libraries. By Edward Edwards. (tritbner.)—mr....

in his preface, that he intends this volume to serve "as a handbook for promoters and managers of free town libraries." For this purpose, he has collected a great mass of......

A Persii Flacci Satirarum Liber. Edited By A. Pretor, M.a.

(Riv- ingtons.)—This volume belongs to the Catena Classicorum and is one of the most valuable and well executed of the series we have seen. The editing of Persius is indeed a......

Current Literature.

A History of Chemical Theory. By A. Wurtz. Translated and edited by H. Watts, F.R.S. (Macmillan.)—This is an admirable and philo- sophical review of the growth of chemical......

A Book Of Scottish Pasquils, 1568-1715. (edinburgh :...

is a book of satirical poems, lampoons, Bre., most of which have something to do with prelacy, the Covenant, bishops, general assemblies, Royalists and Royalists, Jacobites and......

Typhaines Abbey : A Tale Of The 2'wdfth Century. By

Count A. de Gobineau. (Sampson Low.)—This is a story, told with some power, of an incident in the great struggle between feudalism in France and the rising power of the towns.......