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Children's Books.*

Miss Li FEIIVER'S last book, Us and Our Donkey, is written in her well-known style. This mixture of grave and gay makes very pleasant reading, and is also true to life. The......

William Makepeace Thackeray.*

THE desire so strongly expressed by Thackeray himself that no biography of him should be written cannot, we suppose, ho regarded as a perpetual injunction. It will be forty-six......

The Last Volume Of " Contemporary France."' Each Of M.

Hanotaux's four volumes has a hero, or, to speak more exactly, a leading figure. It is Gambetta who dominates this fourth volume : a genius, statesman, and patriot, but with......