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Catalogue Of The London Library. By Robert Harrison,...

Librarian. Fourth Edition. 1875.—The publication of a new edition of this catalogue reminds us that five-and-thirty years have passed away since the London Library was......

Current Literature.

a notice of it would have been most appropriate,—the Christmas season. We will do it a tardy justice now, all the more willingly out of regard for the author, whose untimely......

Shadows Cast Before. By Massingberd Home. (chapman And...

is a lackadaisical story about a young lady, whose name is Beatrice Vane, but whom her admirers call "Princess." She lives at G el oz, in the Basses Pyrdndes, with her cousin,......

The Magazines.

THE extraordinary inequalities sometimes visible between dif- ferent numbers of the same magazine has always been a puzzle to us, but it is explicable, compared with the......

A Child Of Fortune. By Stephen J. Mackenna. 3 Vols.

(Hurst and Blackett)—A. military novel, when it is a novel of the barracks, is not an agreeable specimen of literature. We call this a military novel, because the characters in......