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Our New Zealand Cousins. By The Hon. James Inglis. (sampson

Low and Co.)—This compact little volume deserves a word of com- mendation, not because of any special originality in it, either in the way of research or of reflection, but......

Extended Period Which He Has Chosen For His Subject. Indeed,

ha could hardly do otherwise, considering his limitation of space. On. the whole, we think that the most interesting part of his volume is that which concerns social and......

In The Shires, By Sir Randal H. Roberts, Bart. (f.

V. White and Co.), is described by its author as " a sporting novel," and is neither better nor worse than most stories by disciples of the late Mr. Whyte. Melville. There is in......

Publications Of The Week.

Abington (Mrs.), Life of, or 8vo (Reader) 7/6 Baxendale (W.). Dictionary of Anecdote, frx., my 8v0 (Dickinson) 12/6 Borrowed Plumes, from the German Poets, or Boo (Trlibner) 4/6......

American Literature, 1607-1885. By Charles F. Richardson....

Sons.)—" No critical task is more difficult and delicate than that of estimating the rank and analysing the achievements of American authors." So runs Mr. Richardson's first......

The Fables Of Avianus. Edited By Robinson Ellis, M.a....

Press.)—The public to which the latest work of Mr. Robinson Ellis's careful and ingenious scholarship appeals is small, but certainly appreciative. Almost alone among English......

Sussex Archwological Collections. Vol. Xxxv. (if. Wolff,...

contains—as, indeed, all such volumes do—some interesting papers. Captain Altree writes a history of the parish of Wavelsfield ; and the Rev. R. F. Whistler contributes "The......

How To Write The History Of A Family. By W.

P. W. Phillimore. (Elliot Stock.)—Mr. Phillimore first discusses what a family history should be, and then points out the sources from which materials can be derived. There are......