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Spanish And Italian Folk - Songs, Translated By Alma...

be a most charming book if the value of its contents were proportionate to its elegance in the matter of appearance. But although not without a certain interest, and although......

The First Book Of Virgil's .enid. With Interlinear...

and Notes. (Swan Sonnenschein, Lowrey, and Co.)—Books of this kind expose more forcibly than anything else some of the evils which competitive examinations have brought upon us.......

Studies New And Old. By W. L. Courtney, M.a., Ll.d.

(Chap- man and Hall.)—Mr. Courtney states that the majority of these essays—the book contains eleven—were published in the Fort- nightly Review, and that the papers on Hobbes......

Vergii, Enid Iv. With Introduction, Notes, And...

the Rev. H. H. Stephenson. (Macmillan and Co.)—Mr. Stephenson has devoted his introduction to oomments on the diction of Virgil, and to hints on hexameter versification. In his......

The Volcanic Origin Of Epidemics. By John Parkin, M.d....

Edition. (Sampson Low.)—From the earliest times observant minds have noticed that the most dreadful epidemics have been preceded or accompanied by aerial phenomena of se......

Virgil, Xneid I. With Introduction And Notes, By C. S.

Jerram. (Clarendon Press.)—Mr.Jerram's edition - was, we imagine, written to supply help to boys who are reading Virgil for the first time. There is no reason why it should not......

A Jubilee Jaunt In Norway. By Three Girls. (griffith,...

Okeden, and Welsh.)—The number of tourists who visit Norway is increasing every year with rapidity, and the number of those who on their return feel constrained to print their......