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The Ionian Islands During The Present Century. By Captain...

Jervis, M.P. (Chapman and Hall.)--This timely little volume contains a concise but complete history of the Ionian Islands, from their cession to France by the treaty of Campo......

T. Michelet's La Pokgwe Martyr. (paris, Dentn ;...

Michelet's sympathetic nature is so bent on wielding the pen, which becomes a powerful weapon in his hand in favour of the weak, that he can hardly bring himself to acknowledge......

The American Question, And How To Settle It. (sampson...

American question is to be settled, in the opinion of the author of this volume, by mediation and territorial adjustment. He agrees with the opinion arrived at by such different......

Mildred's Last Night: Or, The Franklyns. By The Author Of

" Agges- den Vicarage," &c. (Bell and Daldy.)—A very pleasant, well-written, High-Church novelette, the object of which is, we imagine, to inculcate the necessity of " showing......

The Book Of Days. Edited By R. Chambers. Vol. L

(W. and R. Chambers.)—This work appears to be constructed on much the same plan as the well-known Year - Book of Mr. Hone. It is divided into sec- tions, corresponding to the......

Rinaldo. By Chandos Hoskyns Abrahall, Author Of "arctic...

&c. (Hodson and Son.)—Mr. Chandos Hoskyns Abrahall, who has already written one or two poems on or about Sir John Franklin, has at length taken a more ambitious flight, and has......

Narrative Of A Secret Mission To The Danish Islands In

1808. By Rev. James Robertson. (Longman.)—This is rather a remarkable little book. Its author is a Scotch gentleman, who in the early part of the present cen- tury was an inmate......

Books Received During The Week.

My Ministerial Experiences,, by the Rev. Dr. Buchsel (Alex. Straban and Co.).—The Negeb, or South Country of Scripture, by Edward Wilton, M.A. (Macmillan and Co.). —Village......