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Vanity Fair Album. January-june, 1878. (vanity Fair...

be noted that the mode of publishing the Album has been changed. It is in future to appear in half-yearly, not yearly, volumes. Of the volume before us there is little to say.......

We Have To Notice The Proceedings Of The Royal Colonial

Institute, Vol. IX., 1877-8. (Sampson Low and Co.)—The papers in this volume are of varied and interesting character. "Indian Famines, and how to Modify the Causes that lead to......

Avondale Of Avondale. By Utter° Barre. 3 Vols....

cannot disguise our opinion that this is a yen; tedious book. To give with fictitious names, which very thinly veil the real personages for whom they are intended, a rechatiffe•......

Vanessa Faire. A Novel. By George Joseph. (s....

find ourselves in very high company in this story, but the great folks are, generally speaking, either so very odd, or so very bad, that we have been unable to find even one......

Poetry.—swallow-flighis. By Louise Chandler Moulton. (mac-

millan.)—This is a volume of remarkably graceful and tender verso. It contains some sixty short poems, which, if they scarcely afford a sufficient proof of genius, yet certainly......