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Gold Elsie. From The German Of E. Marlitt, Author Of

the "Old Maid's Secret." Translated by Mrs. A. L. Winter. (Strahan.)—The -" Old Maid's Secret" we read with much pleasure, and Gold Elsie we - have found not unworthy to be its......

Shipwrecks And Disasters At Sea. By W. H. G. Kingston.

(Rout- ledge.)—One regrets, perhaps, to see what may be called the friends of one's youth—such stories as "The Loss of the 'Kent,' East Indiaman," and "The Wreck of the Medusa......

Current Literature.

Russian Conspirators in Siberia. By Baron R—, "a Russian Dekabrist." Translated from the German by Evelyn S. John Mildmay. (Smith and Elder.)—It is possible that some of our......

Handbook Of Hardy Trees, Shrubs, And Herbaceous Plants....

the French work of Messrs. Decaisne and Naudin. By W. B. Homsley. (Longmans.)—We hare often been surprised at the indifference shown by good, practical gardeners, and even by......

Ravensdale. 3 Vols. (s. Tinsley)—this Is A Story Of The

period when the disaffection of Ireland reached its culminating point, the closing years of the last century. The hero is an Irishman by family, but born in England ;......

Pont. — Songs For Sailors. By W. C. Bennett. (h. S. King.)

Mr. Bennett is a writer of some literary skill, who has cultivated the art of poetry with a diligence which puts to shame the crowd of care- less rhymesters, and who has not......

The Complete Peerage, Haronetage, Knight Age. And House...

for 1873. By Edward Watford, M.A., late Scholar of Balliol College, Oxford. (Hardwicke.)—This is a most convenient little book, com- bining Mr. Walford's excellent peerage,......

Brare Men's Footsteps. By The Editor Of "men Who Have

Risen." (W. S. King.)—A good book of its kind, which will, we hope, meet with the same well-deserved success that attended its predecessor. The editor first gives the life of......