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The First English Conquest Of Canada. By Henry Kirke....

—The second conquest of Canada, with .its central figure of Wolfe, most of us know something about ; the heroes of the first, among whom Kirke may be taken as standing first,......

Parttng Words To Boys Leaving School. Edited By Maurice C.

Elms, M.A. (Dublin : Ponsonby. Longman.)—This little volume contains fifteen essays, written by various authors, and dealing with the questions and difficulties that encounter a......

Crud As The Grave. By The Countess Von Bothmer. 3

vols. (H. S. King.)—Readers who have a dislike for the melancholy in fiction—a dislike in which, as we have before taken occasion to say, we heartily sympathize—may rest assured......

Current Literature.

Catena Classicorum : Demosthenes, with English Notes. Part I. De Corona. By the Rev. Arthur Holmes, M.A. (Rivington.)—Mr. Holmes has compressed into a convenient shape the......

Freemasonry And Its Jurisprudence. By Brother Chalmers L....

and Turner.)—This book has had the misfortune to fall into the hands of what the " brotherhood " politely call "a profane." "Pro- fanes," it is needless to say, are in the eyes......

Sister Martha ; Or, A Romance Of The Franco-prussian War.

By Benjamin Wilson. (Newby.)—What we have to say about this book refers to the first sixty pages only; more we have not been able to read. Here is what Sister Martha's face......