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Au Alia As It Is. By A Clergyman. (longmans.)—some Interest-

details and anecdotes are given in this book, but the author does not seem to have sifted the gossip he picked up, or to have viewed it without prejudice. We allude especially......

Pocket French Dictionary. By Ferdinand E. A. Gaso. (bell And

Daldy.) Paris: a Handbook, or French at Sight. (R. Washbourne.) — The visitor to Paris during the Exhibition will do well to put the first of these two books in his pocket. We......

Don Carlos, Infant Of Spain. Translated From The German Of

Schiller. By Thomas Selby Egan, M.A. (Williams and Norgate.)—Mr. Egan has "endeavoured to combine an order of words sufficiently close to the text to be useful to the learner of......

Descriptive Handbook Of America. By G. W. Bacon And W.

G. Larkins. (Bacon and Co.)—We have submitted this work to native judgment, and have heard it praised for accuracy. To a stranger it seems marvellously full of information, and......

The Book Of Knots, Being A Complete Treatise On The

Art of Cordage. Illustrated by 172 diagrams. By "Tom Bowling." (Hardwicke.)— The idea of this little work struck us as excellent, but after reading it and examining the plates......

The Instructive Picture Book. By Adam White. (edinburgh,...

Douglas.)—This is a seventh edition, but we do not like to dismiss it without a word of commendation. The plates it contains . are exceedingly good, and bring nearly the whole......

Shakespeare Some Notes On His Character And Writings. By A

Student. (Edinburgh : Edmonston and Douglas.)—We do not find much for approval or for dissent in this little volume. The author has read Shakespeare with attention, and has......

Emmanuel; Or, The Incarnation Of The Son Of God The

Foundation of Immutable Truth. By the Rev. M. F. Sadler. (Bell and Daldy.)—We can fully believe that this work is an expansion of a series of parochial lectures delivered to a......

Geschichte Der &sawn Des Britischen Reichs. Von W. Vocke...

is a truly German work in the highest sense of the ;term. Herr Vocke gives us the history and statistics of the taxation of the British Empire, beginning with Magna Charts, and......

The Student's Chart Of English Literature. Arranged By J. W.

Morris, F.L.S. (Longmans.)—Mr. Morris says that the plan of this chart is but partly original. We should pay him a higher compliment. It seems to us very original, though not......

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Thoughtful Moments And Scriptural Studies Is Not Always...

or very definite. But he is careful and moderate, and when he does make a suggestion it is evidently the fruit of much reflection. The longest essay in his present work is......

Domestic Medicine: Plain And Brief Directions For The...

before Advice can be Obtained. By Offiey Bohan Shore. (W. P. Nimmo.)—Dr. Shore does not want to deprive his colleagues of any patients, and therefore his directions are......

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