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The Victoria Edition Of The Pickwick Papers, 2 Vols....

and Hall), will doubtless be the standard edition of the famous work. Everything connected with it in the way of history, both as concerns letterpress and illustration, is......

Mr. Barnes, Of New York. By Archibald Clavering Gunter....

ledge and Sons.)—Mr. Barnes happens tube present at a quarrel that takes place between an English naval officer and a young Corsican, and also at the duel that follows. The......

Parish Law (steer's). Edited By W. H. Maonamara. (stevens...

Sons ; Sweet and Sons ; Maxwell and Sons.)—This is a very useful book very well edited. Parochial politics are ceasing to carry the contemptuous meaning which they used, now......

Athletics And Football. By Montague Shearman....

book about which one might easily say much. It brings the whole subject down to date, and the subject is one in which a vast number of people are more or leas interested. From......

The Petition Of Right. By Walter Clode. (clowes And Son.)—

This is meant in the first place for lawyers, but lay readers also will not fail to find interest in it. There are, for instance, the cases in which it seems that there has been......

Introductory Physical Geography. By The Late David Page,...

and enlarged by Charles Lapworth, LL.D. (Blackwood and Sons.)—This standard work has been brought up to time by additions and alterations in regions of knowledge, as, e.g.,......

Local Government Board : Medical Officer's Report For...

sented to both Houses of Parliament.)—This is a very remarkable production, and by no means a comforting one. The main points to which the reader's attention is directed are the......

Life And Death Of The Venerable Edmund Jennings. By His

Brother, John Jennings. (Burns and Oates.)—This is a reprint, with some slight alterations, of a memoir published in 1614,—i.e., twenty- three years after the death of its......