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Stronbuy ; Or, Hanks Of Highland Yarn. By The Author

of " Tobersnorey.' (Macniven and Wallace.)—Stronbuy is a small Highland shooting-box, which its proprietor, who is seized with au accommodating desire to spend his summer in the......

Notebook Of An Amateur Geologist. By J. E. Lee....

Here are 90 pages of letterpress and 203 of lithographic plates. The scattered notes, the imperfect descriptions, and the (for the most part) very elementary sketches, of which......

The Westminster Review, October. (triibner And Co.)—the...

first article in this number, after a brief and generally un- favourable criticism of the Irish Land Act, proceeds to propound his answer as to the English Land Question. He is......

Incidents Of A Journey Through Nubia To Daifoor. By F.

Sidney Ensor, C.E. (W. H. Allen and Co.)—Mr. Ensor visited the region lying between Old Dongola and El Fasha, for the purpose of making the necessary observations for the......

Transactions Of The Royal Historical Society. Vol. Ix....

the Society.)—The Society, which has been reorganised, and seems to have a promising prospect of success in the future, has. here published an interesting volume. Mr. F. G.......

The Brides Of Ardmore : A Story Of Irish Life.

By Agnes Smith. (Elliot Stock.)—Miss Smith has produced a carefully studied and interesting picture of Irish ecclesiastical life, before it had been assimilated to Roman rule by......

The New Werther. By "loki." (kegan Paul And Co.)—the...

character of this book makes it probable that the critics, whose attention the author modestly deprecates, will be his chief readers. The slender volume is a genuine record of......

Mind In Animals. By Professor Ludwig Buchner. Translated...

Besant. (Free-thought Publishing Company.)—We are mach obliged to the translator and to the publishers for this very interest- ing volume, though we neither wish nor expect that......

Current Literature.

Church Quarterly Review, October. (Spottiswoode and CO—The most attractive article in this number is the biographical sketch of Henry Martyn, a great missionary, if we are to......