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We Have Received The Second Volume Of The Henry Irving

Shakespeare. Edited by Henry Irving and Frank A. Marshall. (Blackie and Son.)—The volume contains the Second and Third Parts of Henry VI. These are supplemented by the drama......

On A Surf - Bound Coast. By A. P. Crouch. (sampson Low

and Co.)—This is an account of a cable-laying expedition on the West African Coast, which, starting from Bathurst, ended at St. Paul de Loanda ; the writer's narrative, however,......

Great Writers : We Of Victor Hugo. By Frank T.

Marzials. (Walter Scott.)—In spite of a fantastic style which constantly draws the reader's attention to its eccentricities, this is an in- teresting volume, and shows that the......

Amazonprovince,s Of Peru. By H. Guillaume, F.r.g.s....

gigantic ranges of mountains separate the sea- coast towns of Peru from the Montana, that magnificent country which, starting from the slopes of the Eastern Cordilleras,......

Puck And Pearl. By Frederika Macdonald. (chapman And...

of the life of two Anglo-Indian children. We find in it insight into the feelings and imaginations of children ; and a happy description of the surroundings and events, ordinary......

" Brie - A - Brac." Described By Lord Ronald Gower....

and Co.)—Lord Ronald Gower introduces this "description of some photo-prints illustrating objects of art at Gower Lodge, Windsor," by some good-humoured observations on the......

And Diamond-diggers In South Africa, Well Told In A Strain

of boisterous humour and with an apparent appreciation of the rough, unrefined, occasionally vulgar life of these up-country colonists. "A Night's Drive" is a brisk account of a......