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Tales And Sketches. By Hugh Miller, Author Of " The

Old Red Sand- stone," &c. Edited by Mrs. Miller. (A. and C. Black.)—This volume consists of a collection of minor contributions to various magazines, written, for the most part,......

The Social Science Of The Constitution Of Society....

—The author of this volume proposes to provide a remedy for the evils by which the present condition of society is disfigured, by establishing community of property, and......

The Cost Of A Secret. By The Author Of "

Agnes Tremorno." Three Vols. (Chapman and Hall.)—This story is decidedly superior to the average three-volume novel of the period. It is, from beginning to end, very evenly......

Old Friends And What Became Of Them. By Rev. J.

B. Owen, M.A. (Nisbet and Co.)—In this small volume the incumbent of St. Jude's, Chelsea, has given to the public a collection of reminiscences of one of his old schoolmasters......

Homer And English Metre. By W. G. T. Barter, Esq.

(Bell an& Daldy.)—Mr. Barter, who, as some of our readers may perhaps remem- ber, published in 1854 a literal translation of the Iliad in the Spenserian damn, has now given us a......

Books Received During The Week.

The Post-of f ice Loudon Suburban Directory (Kelly and Co.).—The Constitutional History of England, by Thus. E. May, C.B. (Lougmans).—Lectures Delivered in Australia, by John......