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Sheffield: Past And Present. By The Rev. Alfred 'getty, D.d.

(Sheffield : Rogers. London : Boll and Sons.)—Sheffield, :unlike many of the great Northern towns, has been a place of note since the Con- quest. Somewhere in its vicinity was......

The Ringwoods Of Ringwood. By Mervyn Merriton. (tinsley...

vulgar, wicked woman, and an equally unscrupulous attorney, are not pleasant subjects for a picture, whether painted by pen or pencil ; these, however, are the people whose......

The English Factory Legislation. By Ernst Edler Von...

by F. L. Weinmann. (Chapman and HalL)—It is somewhat strange that we should be indebted to a German for a complete and systematic account of an important branch of recent......

The Various Forces Of Nature. By Michael Faraday. Edited By

William Crookes. (Matto and Windus.)—In this volume we have a series of six lectures delivered by Faraday at the Royal Institution, lectures which all who listened to them will......

Notes On Natal. Edited By John Robinson, F.r.g.s....

: Robinson and Vans°. London : Street.)—" The desire of the editor," we read in the preface, "has been to place in a compact and accessible form a trustworthy description of the......

Of Breaks, So That It Close, Heavy, And Uninteresting. If

the pur- pose of putting it forth in this guise is to render it available as a hand- book, that purpose ought to have been carried out in its arrangement, which is quite too......