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The Best Season On Record. By Captain Pennell-elmhirst....

Sons.)—This is an account of the doings of the Quern hunt from October, 1883, to March, 1884. We do not pre- tend to criticise it ; but we may congratulate the agricultural......

Public Life In England. By Philippe Daryl. Translated By...

Frith. (Routledge.)—M. Daryl's book is divided into three parts, treating respectively of "Literature and the Theatre," "Parliament and the City of London," and "The Queen, the......

A Record Of Ellen Watson. Arranged And Edited By Anna

Buck- fitness for future work, must be a picture rather than a story ; and as she also says that material is wanting for rendering that picture artistic, we are not sere that......

Memoirs Of Bernard Gilpin, Parson Of Houghton-le-spring,...

the North. By the Rev. C. S. Collingwood. (Simpkin, Marshall, and (io.)—The necessity for a fresh biography of Bernard Gilpin is not evident, and Mr. Collingwood fails to make......

Brief Romances From Bristol History. Byj. L. Williams....

Son, Bristol ; Hamilton, Adams, and Co., London.)—The author would have been better advised in allowing these romances to sleep in the obscure back pages of the Bristol Times......

Christmas Cards.—we Have Received A Sample Of Christmas...

Messrs. Eyre and Spottiswoode. They consist of endless varieties of flowers, some of them hand-painted ; some pretty arrangements of vignetted photographs, and also many quaint......