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Some Guidebooks.*

TAKING these Guide-books in the order as numbered below; we come (1) to Mr. Bevan's Kent. Like all of the two- shilling handbooks published by Mr. Stanford, it consists of about......

Bible Hygiene; Or, Health Hints. By A Physician. (hodder And

Stoughton.)—The objects proposed by the writer are, flrst, to present in a condensed and popular form the elements of this study ; secondly, to point out the number, variety,......

Current Literature.

The Letters of the Younger Pliny. Literally translated by J. D. Lewis, M.A. (Trilbner.)—This is, on the whole, both a faithful and readable translation of one of the most......

Alan Dering. By The Hon. Mrs. Fetherstonhaugh. 2 Vols....

have a favourable recollection of " Kilcorran," which was, if we remember right, Mrs. Fetherstonhaugh's first novel; but we can say nothing for Alan Dering. The author might at......

Soldiers Of The Victorian Age. By Charles Rathbone Low. 2

vols. (Chapman and Ifall.)—Mr. Low knows very well how to tell a story of adventure by field and flood, as thousands of readers, both young and old, can testify. He has, too, a......