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The History Of The Violin.*

History of the Violin. By William Sandys, F.S.A., and Simon Andrew Forster. London: John Russell Smith, 1864. mately interwoven with the loftiest triumphs of music, and one......

The Wars Of Wapsburg. By The Author Of " The

Heir of Redclyffe." (Groombridge and Sons.)—The veriest trifle from the pen of Miss Yonge is sure to have unity of conception and spirit. If wasps could be defended, it would be......

The New Zealand Handbook • Ninth Edition. (willis Gaun And

Co.)—A candid little book—praise which is not slight, considering the character of many of these emigrants' manuals. The intending emigrant is told fairly what he will find—a......

Iron And Iron-workers.* •

THE somewhat unambitious title of Mr. Smiles's new work does scant justice to its multifarious and highly interesting contents. The book is a history of iron and the progress of......

The British Abnanac For 1863. (knight And Co.)—published...

Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge, this almanac contains everything which an almanac was ever expected to contain. Bound up with it may be had the "Companion to the......