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Comical French Grammar. By Edward James Drury. (george...

sign of corruption of manners in a country, it's the multiplicity of laws," wrote a learned Frenchman. We see a worse sign in the multiplicity of jokes. As, however, it will......

Novels. — The Ambassador Extraordinary. 3 Vole....

no little enjoyment out of these three volumes, if he does not trouble himself to make out the plot, to identify the characters, or generally to understand what it is all about.......

Manchester Science Lectures. Ninth And Tenth Series....

wo have to welcome the appearance in a cheap form of two fresh series of " Science Lectures for the People." Seventeen lectures, popular in the best sense of the word, having......

Northward Ito ! By Captain Albert H. Markham, R.n. (mac-

millan.)—Captain Markham limits himself to describing the attempts which have been made to explore the region of the North Pole, as distinguished from the expeditions which have......