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Within The Walls : A Tale Of The Siege Of

Haarlem. By Mary Doig. (Partridge.)—This is a story of the straggle of the United Provinces against Spain. The author has studied the history of the time with diligence, and......

Bits Of Talk About Home Matters. By "h. H." (boston,

U.S., Roberts.)—" H. H." tells us that she has been a "hopeless knight- errant of boyhood all her life," and accordingly, though she takes occasion now and then to give her......

Men Of The Third Republic. (strahan.)—the Title Is A...

convenient one, though it includes the description of many men who are rather in "the Third Republic" than of it. The Due d'Audriffet Pasquier, for instance, is one of its......

Gone Before. By Henry Southgate. (lockwood.)—the Compiler...

as "a manual of consolation for the bereaved and a well of sympathy for the sorrowing, filled from many sources." Mr. Southgate has had plenty of practice in his work, knows,......

The Letters Of Cicero To Atticus. Book I. Edited By

Alfred Pretor. (Deighton and Boll, and Bell and Daldy.)—The notes which Mr. Pretor has furnished leave little or nothing to bo desired. Even practised. scholars are brought up......

Mania Cornubiw. By W. C. Borlase. (longraans.)—mr....

work as "a descriptive essay illustrative of the Sepulchres and Funeral Customs of the early inhabitants of the County of Cornwall." It is a complete, in fact, we should......

New Enrrioxs.—messrs. Routledge Are Publishing A Handsome...

series of works which will never, we hope, lose their popu- larity—Captain Marryatt's novels. The King's Own is, we believe, the first of the series, and a good specimen, but......