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Country Stories, Old And New, In Prose And Verse. By

Holme Lee. vols. (Smith and Elder.)—We prefer Holme Lee's prose to her verse. The latter is sweet, but somewhat weak, not better, in fact, than many another volume of verse......

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......

The Letters And The Life Of Francis Bacon. By James

Spedding. Vol. 6. (Longman.)—Mr. Spedding has come to a very difficult part of his work, but does not seem to lose courage. This sixth volume includes something more than two......

Dictionary Of American Biography, Including Men Of The...

Francis S. Drake. (Boston, U.S.: Osgood. London: Triibner.)—The volume is on the gigantic scale which seems appropriate to all things American. It is an octavo of the largest......