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Schooled With Briars : A Story Of To-day. (tinsley.)—in An

incautious moment we gave this story, not having looked beyond the title, which seemed to savour of a high morality, to a young lady to read, and wore very properly rebuked for......

The Contemporary Review.

THE Contemporary, as at present managed, seems likely to run its rivals, the half-crown monthlies hard. It addresses, of course, a somewhat graver class, but the absence of a......

Life And Sport In South-eastern Africa. By Charles Hamilton.

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