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The Clematis As A Garden Flower. By Thomas Moore And

George Jackman. (Murray.)—This monograph on the Clematis—a good-sized octavo of about 150 pages—is one of those curious little indications which are always coming out of the......

The Romance Of Astronomy. By R. Kalley Miller....

always welcome books, written by men so competent as Mr. Miller, on a subject of inexhaustible interest. Mr. Proctor and Mr. Lockyer keep us well supplied with capital reading,......

Sick And In Prison. (boll And Daldy.)—this Is A Little

book about workhouses, by one who has spent much time and strength in making herself acquainted with them, and the poor creatures who live in them. There are some frightful......

The Trial Of Sir Jasper: A Temperance Tale In Verse.

By S. C. Hall, F.S.A. (Virtue and Co.)—This is the best of the many stories which have been written, in prose and in verse, on the terrible subject of drink. Temperance stories,......

Love In The Nineteenth Century. By Harriet W. Preston....

U.S., Roberts.)—Miss Preston, whose admirable translation of Mistral's poem of "Mireio" we had the pleasure of reviewing some little time ago, has given us an agreeable little......