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Law Books.—we Have Received A Second Edition Of Balleck's...

tional Law, edited by Sir Sherston Baker, Bart. (C. Kegan Paul.) The first edition was published in 18G1 ; since that date, many things have occurred to furnish precedents, and......

Under The Lilies. By Louisa M. Alcott. (sampson Low.)—one Of

Mrs. Alcott's liveliest and most humorous tales. The adventures of Sanchcr are delightful, and admirably told.......

The British Almanac For 1879. (company Of...

contains, as usual, besides the "Almanac" proper, the calendar, lists of Parliaments, tables, 8te., a "Companion to the Almanac, or Year-book of General Information," in which......

Messrs. Marcus Ward's Pocket-book And . Diary Are In...

taste, and the latter has the advantage of being quarterly diaries, renewed each quarter, so as to allow more room than the diaries of the whole year can do.......

Wilbehn Tell: A Drama, By Schiller. Translated Into...

by the Rev. Edward Massie, M.A. (The Clarendon Press, Oxford.)— A notice informs us that the object of the present translation is to make this play as useful as possible to......

A Tragedy, Indeed. A Novel. 2 Vols. From The French

of Adolfo Belot. By H. Mainwaring Dunstan. (Remington and Co.)—There is no uncommon merit in this story to demand its translation into English, at all events to warrant its......

Saronarola : His Life And Times. By W. R. Clark,

M.A. "Home. Library." (Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge.)—Little more need be said of this new Life of Savonarola than that it has been carefully compiled, is written......

Veritas Victrir. By William Tayler, Esq., Late...

(Ridgway.)—Mr. Tayler accumulates here the testimony which has been borne to the wisdom and justice of his conduct at Patna during the Sepoy war, conduct for which he has been......

In The Wilderness. By Charles Dudley Warner. (sampson Low...

Co.)—This little volume contains some entertaining little essays of a humorous kind, almost peculiar to Transatlantic writers. We cannot define the humour, or describe it,......

The Ivritten Word; Or, Considerations On The Sacred...

William Humphrey, Priest of the Society of Jesus. (Burns and Oaths.)— This is a scholarly and carefully-written book, and will be found inter- esting by those who wish to learn......