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Scientific Guide To Switzerland. By J. R. Morel. (smith And

Elder.) —Mr. Morell gives us an account of the physical geography of Switzer- land, beginning with the mountains and going on to the streams and lakes ; of the geology of the......

An Early Castilian Storyteller.* Like Many Of The...

in an unbookish age, whom the primitiveness of their language and their notions has endeared to etymologists and literary historians, the Castilian Prince Don John Manuel has......

Current Literature.

--e-- The Pupils of St. John the Divine. By the Author of The Heir of .12edclyffe. (Macmillan.)—This is the first work in a new series issued by Messrs. Macmillan under the name......

The House Of Rochfort. By William Platt. 3 Vole. (saunders

and Otley.)—A good deal of labour seems to have been expended on this novel, bat it has not had the effect of lightening the reader's task. Mr. Platt has what is called among......

The Mary Ira : Being The Narrative Journal Of A

Yachting Expedition from Auckland to the South Sea Islands. By J. K. M. (Newby.)—We do not learn much about New Zealand or the South Pacific from this book, and if it is not......

Ireland And Her Agitators. By W. J. O'n. Daunt. New

Edition. (Dublin: Mullany.)—The first edition of this book seems to have been published more than twenty years ago. Such a lapse of time makes a new edition almost a new book,......

Foxholme Hall, And Other Stories. By W. H. G. Kingston.

(Vir- tue.)—This book is intended for boys, but the stories contained in it are not such as we can recommend to a youthful audience. Perhaps the ghost stories and that about a......