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Draining From Nature. Il Lustrated By Eighteen Coloured...

plates and more than 100 woodcuts. By George Barnard. (Longman.)—The able Professor of Drawing at Rugby has produced a volume which will be serviceable to pupils and their......

Poems. By Thomas Chatterton. With A Memoir By F. Martin.

Il- lustrated. (C. Griffin and Co.)—The publisher of this volume seems to have had by him a number of not unpleasing engravings, and to have thought that they might as well be......

By The Loch And The River Side. (edmonston And Douglas,

Edin- burgh.)—We have here an amusing collection of pen-and-ink sketches illustrating the troubles that beset an angler, enthusiastic or otherwise, on the banks of or, as is......

The National Melodist, With Symphonies And Acoompaniments...

Edited by J. G. Kieser. (Nimmo.) The Scottish Melodist, with, &c., &c. (Nimmo.)—The publishers have collected in the former of these two volumes the most popular English,......

Songs And Sonnets. By W. Shakespeare. Edited By F. T.

Palgravo. (Macmillan.)—The object of this collection is, in the words of the editor, to bring the lyrical works 'of Shakespeare within a portable volume. Excluding therefore the......

Gems Of Literature. (nimmo.)—this Is A Gift-book Of About...

merit. The selections in prose and poetry are varied, and have been chosen with better taste than we should have expected from the stilted preface with which the book opens. The......

John Gilpin. Illustrated By C. A. Doyle. (nimmo.)—our Old...

is presented here in very bold colouring, which almost reaches vulgarity. There is considerable vigour in the treatment, but we do not altogether approve of this conception of "......