2 NOVEMBER 1861, page 19

Books.

THE CRUSADES.* THERE is but one defect in this little book, and that is its name. It is not a history at all, either of the Crusades or of their litera- ture; but an essay on......

Iiur Gets.

AN ILLUSTRATED GIFT BOOK. ABOUT this season we may safely look for a number of elaborately got up books, resplendent with gilding, bound in highly ornamental covers of green or......