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A Home-ruler. By Annie Young And Rachel Trent. (w. H.

Allen and Co.)—This is a pretty little story, showing some marks of inexperience in its construction, but decidedly well written and read- able throughout. The three daughters......

Our Brother In Black : His Freedom And His Future.

By Atticus G. Haygood, D.D. (Phillips and Hunt, Now York.)—Here we have a calm and rational utterance on the subject of the negro population from a genuine Southerner, a man who......

The Land Of The Morning. By William Gray Dixon, M.a.

(J. Gemmell, Edinburgh.)—Mr. Dixon resided in Japan for four years, occupying during that time a Professor's ohair in the College of Engineering in Tokeyti. Professors have......

Military Maxims And Apothegms. By Captain Bartle Teeling....

and Co.)—This little volume, adapted for the pocket and intended to be a soldier's vade-mecum, is a collection of " maxims and apothegms" more or less significant, uttered or......

Wiclif's Place In History. Three Lectures Delivered...

of Oxford in 1881. By Montagu Burrows, M.A. (Isbis- ter and Co.)—The brilliant historical and literary genius of Mr. John Richard Green is perhaps nowhere more strikingly......

The World's Foundations. By Agnes Giberne. (seeley And...

is an effort, and, on the whole, a successful effort, to popularise geology. It is a book intended, the preface tells us, for "beginners of all kinds," and will serve this......

Familiar Allusions. Edited By C. G. Wheeler. (chatto And...

handbook of miscellaneous information was originally began by the late Mr. A. Wheeler, and was designed and intended as a companion volume to his "Dictionary of the Noted Names......

Shaker Sermons. By H. L. Eads. (trfibner And Co.)—this...

printed, we see, at " Shakers, New York," and the work of the " Bishop of South Union, Kentucky," sets forth the theology and practical rule of life of the Shaker community. The......

What Shall We Act ? By M. C. James. (george

Bell and Sons.) —The plan of this book is to give an analysis of the plots of a hundred good comedies and farces, more or less suitable for the purposes of amateur acting. The......