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History Of Australian Exploration, 1788 - 1888. By Ernest...

Okeden, and Welsh.)—This is a very elaborate summary of the various expeditions which revealed the new world of Australia to its explorers and inhabitants. It is, in fact, more......

Historical Geography Of The British Colonies. By C. P....

Vol. I. (Clarendon Press, Oxford.)—Mr. Lucas, whose " Intro- duction to a Historical Geography" we noticed over a year ago (Spectator, November 12th, 1887), has now issued the......

Untrodden Paths In Roumania. By Mrs. Walker. (chapman And...

Walker has done good service to her fellow- countrymen, and still more to her fellow-countrywomen, who run up and down the earth, and are always seeking for fresh places to run......

Round About New Zealand : Being Notes From A Journal

of Three Years' Wanderings in the Antipodes. By E. W. Payton. (Chapman and Hall.)—Three things appear to be certain about New Zealand,—that the climate is one of the finest in......

The Youngest Miss Lorton. By Nora Perry. (ticknor And Co.,

Boston, U.S.A.)—In this collection of stories, we select "That Ridiculous Child" as being perhaps the best, and having many pointed and wholesome truths in it. It relates the......

Physiography. By Edward Hull, M.a. (c. W. Deacon And Co.)—

This is a very compact little text-book, with introductory chapters on " The Earth as a Planet," and " Terrestrial Physics," and also some chapters on the distribution of......