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Under The Greenwood Tree. By The Author Of "desperate...

2 vols. (Tinsley.)—The author describes his book, and describes it very well, as " a rural painting of the Datch school." In the early chapters he describes the meeting of a......

Off Parade. By Stephen J. Mackenna. 3 Vols. (hurst And

Blackett.) —It is not an attractive picture that Mr. Mackenna, who has himself been a soldier, gives us of military life "off parade." Parade, after all, cannot occupy many......

The Dublin Review. October. (barns And Oates.)—this Is...

number we have seen for a long time, containing at least four articles of great ability and interest. The most popular is a really brilliant article on Mr. Trollope as a......

Cattle, Sheep, And Deer. By Duncan G. F. Macdonald, Ll.d.

(Steel and Jones.)—This is one of the books which we must content our- selves with describing. Dr. Macdonald, who has probably as large an experience as any man in Great......

Encyclopreclia Of Chronology. By B. B. Woodward And...

Cates. (Longmans.)—It is quite beyond the power of any man to criticise the matter, whether as regards its accuracy or its completeness, of so vast a work as is included in the......

Current Literature.

The British Quarterly, for October. (Hodder and Stoughton.)—This is not the liveliest number of the British Quarterly which has appeared lately, but it contains two or three......