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'animal Painting For Beginner S. Drawn From Nature By...

'T. Dadd and Stanley E. B. Montefiore. (Cassell and Co,)—Here we have twelve studies in colour by the two artists named, and .a number of pencil sketches by Messrs. Harrison......

Aubert. By Jennie Chappell. (w. R. Nimmo, Edinburgh.)—...

a love-story,—ionocent, indeed, but a love-story pure and simple. Mr. Aubert, alias Mr. Verney, Lestrange is loved by one young lady and loves another, who behaves badly to him......

The Cyclopmdia Of Card And Table Games. Edited By Professor

Hoffmann. (Rontledge and Sons.)—It is quite surprising to be told that practically the newest book on this subject is forty years old. Words are inadequate to express our......

The Thames : From Oxford To The Tower. By William

Senior. With etchings by F. S. Walker. (Nimmo.)—The lover of the Thames could not visit it in better company than that of the two authors of this book. Mr. Senior has composed a......

Glimpses Of Old English Homes. By Elizabeth Balch. (mac-...

and Co.)—These descriptions, eight in number, have already, we think, been published in the English Illustrated Magazine. But it is certainly well to have them put together in a......

A Bride From The Bush. By Ernest William Hornung. (smith,

Elder, and Co.)—Alfred Bligh, elder son of an English Judge, marries an Australian girl. It is carefully explained, indeed the girl says herself, that she is not a typical......

Chivalry. Translated From The French Of Lion Gautier By...

Frith. (Routledge and Sons.)—M. Gautier devotes his first four chapters to a discussion of the "Origin of Chivalry," and its "Code," which, for plainness' sake, he reduces to......