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A Complete Latin Course.—the First Year. By Albert...

(Bell and Sons.)—We have no fault to find with this manual, beyond expressing a conviction that it would be a very exceptional boy who, beginning Latin, say at nine years of......

Santo, Lucia, And Co., In Austria. By Ella Hunter....

—This is an exhilarating and stimulating little book, and this is about all the criticism that it would be fair to offer of it. Miss Ella Hunter, being an invalid, is debarred......

Of New Editions, We May Mention Lectures On The History

of the Eastern Church, by Arthur Penrhyn Stanley, D.D. (Murray.)— Tables of European History, Literature, and Art, A.D. 200 to 1882. By John Nichol, M.A. (Maclehose and Sons,......

We Should Be Inclined To Rank High Among The Second-class

fiction of the day ; not an extravagant compliment, it may be thought, but really meaning a good deal, when we consider how little there is that can be properly put in the first......

The Philosopher's Pendulum, And Other Stories. By Rudolph...

.)—A volume of stories, very slight, very dreary, but marked by unusual power. "Rudolph Linden," who is, we believe, a German, though he writes such perfect English, possesses a......

Cassell's Concise Cyclopcedia. Edited By William Heaton....

cyclopsedia in a single volume of not unmanage- able size is manifestly a most useful thing, if it makes a reasonable approximation to completeness. Such an approximation this......