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Lilliput Levee. (alexander Strahan.)—daddy's Makings....

these volumes is of considerable pretensions, the verses having often serious merit, and the illustrations being by pencils no less skilful than those of Messrs. Pinfold and......

Three Notelets On Shakespeare. By William J. Thome,...

Russell Smith.)—The most important of these essays is tho second, which consists of a series of papers from the Atheneum on Shakes- peare's knowledge of what Mr. Thorns has made......

The History Of A Voyage To The Moon. (lockwood And

Go.) — If the writer had been lucky enough to live before Edgar Poe he might have got credit, but as his idea is unfortunately the same as that writer's people will say he......

Barry O'byrne. By Annie Thomas. Three Vole. (john Maxwell...

Co.)—If Miss Thomas means to keep the laurels she won by Denis Dense, she must not publish many such novels as this. The incidents are extravagait to a degree, and nevertheless......