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Letters On The Philosophy Of The Human Mind. Third Series.

By Samuel Bailey, author of "Essays on the Formation of Opinions," &c. (Longman and Co.)—The author of this book acknowledges in his preface that " it would be unreasonable to......

A King Play. By Mrs. S. E. Freeman, Author Of

"Rose of Woodlee," &c. (Freeman.)—This is a kind of historical novelette, on the smallest possible scale, the subject of which is the story of Lambert Simnel. The title of "A......

Current Literature.

The North British Review. February, 1863. (Edinburgh : Clark.)— The current number of what is, in fact, the real " Edinburgh Review," can scarcely be regarded as of more than......

The North American Review. January, 1863. (boston,...

the leading literary review of America gives no sign what- ever of the convulsions which are agitating the country of its birth. It discusses glacier theories, Count Cavour, the......

The Discoveries Of The World. By Antonio Galvano. Edited By

Vice- Admiral Bethune, C.B. (Hakluyt Socicty.)—This is precisely one of those works the publication of which comes directly within the scope of a society whose object is the......

The Scholemaster. By Roger Ascham. Edited By J. E. B.

Mayor, M.A., Fellow of St. John's College, Cambridge. (Bell and Daldy.)— We have to thank Mr. Mayor for a remarkably well executed edition of Roger Ascham's quaint and......

Fergusson's Modern Architecture.*

THE work before us was originally intended by the author to form the third and concluding volume of his admirable Hand- book of Architecture," published some eight years ago.......