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Starlight Through The Roof. By Kevin Kennedy. (downey And...

is a lively Munster story, full of conspiracy, misery, abduction, and fighting, with a little animal spistits thrown in. It also, of course, contains some politics more or less......

Toddle Island. (bentley And Son.)—this Is A Satire,...

but, we think, a failure. We do not advise the author to try again, but if he should, let him first study Swift. That should give him a lighter hand for the work.......

Scanderbeg. By Constance Craigie Halkett. (bliss, Sands,...

of this writer, who, we should say, is quite young, has been to write a historical romance repro- ducing the life and exploits of Alexander the Great. She has taken great pains......

Corona Of The Nantahalas. By Louis Pendleton. (sampson...

and Co.)—Corona is a maiden who grows up into singular beauty in a lonely spot of the North Carolina mountains. Her rearing, her life while she was still fancy-free, and her......

Colour - Vision. By Captain W. De W. Abney. (sampson Low,...

and Co.)—This volume, contains the Tyndall Lectures, delivered at the Royal Institution in 1894. It deals scientifically with the subjects of Colour-Vision and Colour-Blindness,......

Grey Roses. By Henry Harland. (john Lane.)—the Stories...

this collection, and all of which, unless we are mistaken, first saw the light in the Yellow Book, are by no means equal in point of merit. The shorter stories, in which Mr.......