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The Popular History Of England. ,by Charles Knight. Vol...

(Bradbury and Evans.)—This is the concluding volume of Mr. Knight's useful history. It covers the period from the peace with the Unitee States in 1815, to the final extinction......

Versicks From The Portfolio Of A Sexagenarian. (longman...

We gather from an advertisement appended to this volume that it is the work of Mr. Robert Rockliff, of Liverpool, who published some time ago a translation from Yriarte's......

• Flower And Fruit Decoration. By T. C. March....

of the visitors to the International Exhibition will doubtless remember some I very beautiful specimens of table decoration, composed of fruit and , flowers, exhibited by......

Lectures On The Epistle To The Philippians. By Charles John

Vaughan, D.D., Vicar of Doncaster, 457c. (Macmillan.)—Dr. Vaughan's rare ex- cellence as a preacher is so universally acknowledged that it is not necessary for us to do more......

Foreign Desserts For English Tables. By The Author Of...

Pudding Book." (Bentley.)—This is a collection of recipes for dessert dishes, preceded by a rather lengthy preface, of which the author is, we have no doubt, not a little proud.......

A New Pantomime. By E. V. Kenealy, Ll.d. (reeves And

Turner.)— Although Dr. Kenealy does not give us any intimation of the fact, we are mistaken if this volume is more than a revised and enlarged edition of a work which appeared......

Flindersland And Sturtland. • By W. H. Jessop, M.a. Two

volumes. (Bentley.)—Mr. Jessop is, as he takes good care to inform us, a Cambridge man, who went to Australia for some reason which is not immediately apparent, at a time which......

The Parker Gardener. (sampson, Low, And Co.)—a Useful...

of instructions on the house cultivation of ornamental plants. At the close of his preface the author waxes suddenly poetical, wishing that his readers' "way may be as thickly......

Songs On Italy, And Other Poems. By Caroline G. Phillipson.

(Hard- ecicke.)—Thehuthoress of this volume appears to be a lady who, having succeeded in obtaining a personal interview with that most persecuted of men, Garibaldi, has thought......

The World Of Phantoms. (hardwicke.)—this Is A Rather...

in heroic verse, the object of which it is not easy precisely to define. It is about mesmerism ; and it begins with a violent attack on a professor of that science ; but we......

The New Forest. By John R. Wise. (smith, Elder, And

(Jo.)—This very handsome book, which appears in all the glory of bevelled boards, toned and glazed paper, and artistic illustrations, contains a complete account, topographical,......