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We Have Received A Second Edition Of A Popular History

of Astronomy during the Nineteenth Century, by Agnes M. Clerks (Adam and Charles Black, Edinburgh), and are glad to see that the success of what cannot be a low-priced volume......

Easy Legato Studies For The Violin. By S. M. Fleming.

(L. Upoott Gill.)—We gladly recommend this legato tutor to the musical public ; but it mast be remembered that we only do so—of this or any other book of the kind—to those who......

The Vocation Of The Preacher. By E. Paxton Hood. (hodder

and Stoughton.)—Mr. Hood was an easy writer, who, with many ex. cellences, was perhaps chargeable with the fault of superabundance and prolixity. This volume is an excellent......

Dens Forest Sketches. By S. M. Crawley Boevey....

F. H. Crawley Boevey. (Sohn and Robert Maxwell.)—These are mix sufficiently interesting stories of early English history of the romantic. historical kind ; but whereas the......

Principles And Practice Of School Hygiene. By Alfred...

(Joseph Hughes.)—The subject of this manual and the name of its author, deservedly known as a " sanitarian " of many years' standing, will combine to recommend it to a large......

A Set Of Four Hunting And Racing Stories. By W.

B. Gilpin. (Field and Taer.)—The first and longest of these stories is not attractive or pleasant. It shows the turf in its very worst aspect, and might well act as a warning,......

Much Interest, Which Is Not Exclusively Political,...

View of the Political State of Scotland in the Last Century, by Sir Charles Elphinstoue Adam (David Douglas, Edinburgh). It is a confidential report on the "political opinions,......

Burglars In Paradise. By Elizabeth Stuart Phelps. (matto...

of our readers who have made the aquaintance of Miss Phelps's " Corona," her maid " Puelvir," and her dog ' Matthew Launcelot: will be glad to hear something more about them;......

A Winter's Cruise In The Mediterranean. By W. D. Gainsford.

(Swan Sonnensthein and Co.)—There ie something of the " Smel- f catguts " tone in Mr. Gainsford's utterances. Things, for the moat part, disappoint him. His enthusiasm is but......

From The Forecastle To The Cabin. By Captain S. Samuels.

(Sampson Low and Co.)—Not one of the books of adventure with which our table is flooded at Christmas can surpass this true story of Captain Samuels. We speak of it as tree......

Vid Nicaragua. By Mrs. Alfred Hort. (remington And Co.)- "

In the year 18—," begins Mrs. Hort, " we sailed for New York, our destination being the far-famed city San Francisco," and she pro. ceeds to describe the discomforts of her......