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The Magazines.

THE great multiplication of magazines begins to tell a little upon the quality of each one. At least, we fancy there is less concentration of ability, and greater readiness to......

The Second Volume Of Dr. Robert Brown's Admirably And Yet

popularly written treatise, The Earth and its Story (Cassell and Co.), is published. It is, in its way, the historical romance of geology,—or perhaps, when one looks to the......

Current Literature.

Sudden Death; or, My Lady the Wolf. By Britiffe Skottowe. (Swan Sormenschein and Co.)—This is a telling sensation story by a skilful hand that is capable of something more than......

In The Spring-time, By Alice Weber (walter Smith And Limes),

is an advance even on that most delicate study, "Angela." It is a simple story of every-day life, and every-day people of the End that have houses both in town and country, and......

Reader Should Begin By Studying Mr. Christian's Excellent...

" The Comedy of the Law " ("John Popplestone," " forty years town clerk of Stourmouth," is, as might be guessed, nominis umbra). In this he reviews similar productions m the......