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Urbain Olivier's Novels:*

Nortusle is more curious at first sight, though nothing more natural at bottom, than that an age like our own, in which the multiplication of all means of intercourse, material......

Crosses Of Childhood; Or, Alice And Her Friends. (s. W.

Partridge.)— This is an admirable children's book. The little group of children whose sayings and doings form the subject of the work are real living children, their faults of......

The Quarterly Journal Of Science. 'october, 1864. (john...

Sons.)—This valuable publication continues to flourish. Six original articles extend over the whole field of science. The editor treats of "The Source of Living Organisms," and......

A Series Of Metric Tables, In Which The British Standard

Measures and Weights are compared with those of the Metric System. By Charles Hutton Dowling. (Lockwood and Cg.)—Whether Mr. Ewart's Bill legalizing the use of the metric system......

The Ophthabnic Review. No, 3. October, 1864. (robert...

editors of this periodical are Messrs. J. Z. Laurence of London, and Thomas Windsor of Manchester, and it is published quarterly. The papers are clear and well written, and......

The Month. October, 1864. (simpkin, Marshall, And....

monthly magazine has now reached a fourth month, and contains besides an instalment of a tale by Lady Georgiana Fuller- ton a capital notice of the famous Madame Roomier, which......

Urrent Literature.

The Diaries and Pocket Boob for 1865, published by Messrs. De la Rue, are even more attractive in appearance than usual, and certainly not less useful. The arrangement of the......

The Art Journal, September And October, 1864. (james S....

—This old friend of the lovers of art maintains its reputation. Of the en- gravings Mr. Lightfoot's plate after O'Neill's "Foundling" preserves the various and forcible......

Westminster Review. October, 1864. (triibner And...

always the staple of the Westminster, and the paper on "The Patent Laws" is as good a specimen of the solid quarterly article as is often to be met with. Its main propositions......