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Facts And Hints For Every-day Life: A Book For The

Household. (Cassell and Co.)—We may say in commendation of this little volume that we have kept it by us for two or three months, and made actual reference to it for various......

4c4iv 6 1 1 1.0 4 Vaitovii, Indeed Why, There Are Three...

containing each on an average ten names, most of them being names of distinct dialects at least. Cardinal Mezzofanti is said to have known somewhat more than one hundred......

Lost Beauties Of The English Language. By Charles Mackay,...

(G h etto and Winans.) Modern English. By Fitzedward Hall. (Williams and Norgate.)—These two volumes may be classed together, as having the same aim, though pursued in different......

Current Literature.

Worthies of All Souls. By Montagu Burrows, Chichele Professor of Modern History in the University of Oxford and Fellow of All Souls. (Macmillan and Co.)—Archbishop Chichele,......

A Record Of Thoughts. By J. B. Waring. 2 Vols.

(Trubner.)—Here is a strange phenomenon. A man has been thinking for thirty years or so, and concludes that the Bible is of less value than a penny almanack. For listen to Mr.......

Prose Idylls, New And Old. By The Rev. C. Kingsley.

(Macmillan.) —Mr. Kingsley's " Old Idylls " have earned for themselves a favour from all readers of taste which makes it superfluous to praise them, un- less, perchance, there......

Publications Of The Week.

Adam (T.), Impressive Impressions, Excerpts from his MSS. (Edln. Pub. Co.) 5/0 Adeler (Max), Out of the Burly Burly, or Life in an Odd Corner ( Ward & Look) 6/0 Alas and Estin,......

Death.

Burros—Died, on the 26th May, at Hove, Brighton. SugutwAlf GEHNOAL Hums, widow of the late Rev. JOSEPH Hun'eg, LL.D„ in the 85th year of her age.......