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Egypt And Babylon, From Scripture And Profane Sources....

Stoughton.)—Professor Rawlinson has put together in a convenient shape the main facts of the history of these two nations. The volume is nearly equally divided between the two,......

The Looking-glass. By Theophilns Marcliffe. (bemrose And...

" fac-simile reprint" of the edition of 1805. It is "a true history of the early years of an artist," and its interest lies in the facts, proved beyond question in the appendix......

Comedies From A Country Side. By W. Oatram Tristram. (ward

and Downey.)—These tales are not "comedies," according to the common acceptation of that term. They are rather ignoble tragedies, for they have all a gloomy ending. What of the......

Italian Popular Tales. By Thomas Frederick Crane, A.m....

Italians have lately been giving much attention to the- folk-lore of various portions of their country. The results of this study have appeared in periodicals and small......

The Melanesian Languages. By R. H. Codrington, D.d. (the...

Press.)—This volume is one of the many contributions which have been made to the sum of human knowledge by missionary enterprise. Dr. Codrington describes his volume as an......

The Highlands Of Cantubria ; Or, Three Days From England.

By Mars Ross and H. Stonehewer Cooper. (Sampson Low and Co.)— This is an interesting book of travel, possessing, too, the advantage of treating of accessible places and......

Current Literature.

History of the Corporation of Hirrninyliain. By John Thackeray Bunce. Vol. II. (Published for the Corporation by Cornish Brothers, Birmingbam.)—Mr. Bunce completes iu this......