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The Children Of Dean's Court. By Emma Marshall. (john F.

Shaw and Co.)—This is a thoroughly well-intentioned but very prolix and long. drawn-out story of two girls,—Nan, known in her own circle ae " Ladybird." and her capricious but......

The "penny Pocket Library" (s.p.c.k.) Deserves A Hearty...

volumes now before us are :—Rotanson Crusoe, Southey's Life of Nelson, Sir Walter Scott's Talisman, Fenimore Cooper's Last of the Mohicans, Marryatt's Master:nen Beady, and Owen......

A Descriptive, Physical, Industrial, And Historical...

Wales. By Thomas Haughton. (G. Philip and Son.) —.The writer's object is best explained by the first paragraph of his preface :—" This manual follows the lines of the ordinary......

Mon Tournal,1893. (hachette.)—this Is The First Annual...

now periodical for children published in Paris, and a very good volume it is. It is most abundantly illustrated, many of the pictures being coloured, and very well coloured too,......

Vanity Fair Album. Vol. Xxv. 1893. (vanity Fair Office.)—...

is nothing new to be said about the Album. It is no fault of the conductors that celebrities grow yearly more difficult to find, the world not being able to bring a really great......

An Architect In Exile. By Bernard Whelan. (burns And Oates.)

—This is a volume of essays taking its title from the first, which is, perhaps, the least attractive of the set. Among the best we should put "The Oldest of the Arts," which is,......

The Songs Of Scotland Chronologically Arranged. Edited,...

Notes, by Peter Ross. Third edition. (Gardner.) —The Ballad-Minstrelsy of Scotland, Romantic and Historical, Col- lated and annotated. New and revised edition. (Same publisher.)......

Two Volumes In The "university Correspondence College...

B. Clive), are The Tutorial History of Rome, by A. H. Allcroft, M.A., and W. F. Masora, M.A. ; and The Intermediate Text-Book of English History (1485-1608), by C. J.......

Historical Sketch Of Bookbinding. By S. T. Prideaux....

Bullen.)—Mr. Prideaux gives a very circumstantial account of bookbinding and the several masters of that most delightful of crafts. It is not too long, nor is it too compressed......

Christian Workers Of The Nineteenth Century. By G....

(S.P.C.K.)—Archbishop Tait, Bishops Pattoson, Daniel Wilson, Samuel Wilberforce, Hannington, and G. A. Selwyn, with Lord Shaftesbury, Dr. Arnold, and George Moore, are the......

A Dozen All Told. By Twelve Authors, (blaokie And Son.)—

The dozen writers who furnish a tale each to this collection are all well known, and the sexes are equally divided. They are all good, for it is becoming a sine gut non of a......