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The Boys' Own Annual (boys' Own Raper Office), With More

than eight hundred closely-printed triple-columned pages, carries out very thoroughly in its contents the motto of the paper (of which it is the yearly issne)—quidquid agunt......

The Dawn Of Day, A Monthly Publication Of The S.p.0

K. The Cottager and Artisan, and Child's Companion and Jurenile Instructor, both published by the Religious Tract Society, are to be praised for doing what they profess.......

The Rover Of The Andes. By R. M. Ballantyne. (j.

Nisbet and Co.) —This "tale of adventure in South America" gives the variety of incident to which we are accustomed from Mr. Ballantyne. There is a sturdy young Englishman, a......

A Cr1ticism-on 'professor Drimmond.s' Few Religions Books...

have excited so much interest and discussion as Professor Drummond's remarkable attempt to identify spiritual with natural laws. This is due, we believe, not so-mush to the......

Current Literature.

GIFT BOOKS. The English Illustrated Magazine. (Maotnillan.)—The literary contents of this annual volume are at least as noticeable as the illustrations. Among them we have Hugh......

We Have Received The Tenth Volume Of Cassell's...

of England, "New and Revised Edition" (Cassell and Co.).—This carries down the story to the passing of the Franchise Bill (1884), beginning with the death of Lord Mayo, and so......

The Girls' Own Annual. (leisure Hour Office.) —this Is The

corre- sponding volume to the one just mentioned, with just the difference qualem decet ease sororum. This, too, boasts a large list of contri- butors; larger, perhaps, even......

The Magazine Of Art. (cassell And Co.)—we Gladly Welcome...

volume of this excellent publication, which maintains its high character, while sold at a price that is almost incomprehensibly low. The personal and biographical element is......