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The Mediterranean.* Tuffs Latest Addition To The "...

series of Messrs. Cassell promises to be one of the best and most interesting. Wherever we may locate the first home of the human race, • The Picturesque Mediterranean. Vol. I.......

The Great Taboo.*

WE have included this volume under the denomination of " Gift-Books," but we must warn our readers that it is not milk for babes, but, on the contrary, very strong meat indeed.......

The Schooner ' Merry Chanter.' By Frank S. Stockton....

Low, Marston, and Co.)—Though this story is not as mirth- compelling, we might say, as convulsing a book as "Rudder Grange," it is very entertaining. The teller of the story......

Minster Lova. By Emily S. Holt. (john F. Shaw.)—miss Holt

candidly avows that the purpose with which her book is written is to rouse the feeling of English readers against the " Catholio Revival." Perhaps, from her point of view, it......

Job Simmons ; Or, " I Am Nothing." By The

Rev. F. T. Bramston. (W. Skeffington and Son.)—The picture of the clergy- man of Ardslow is a very attractive one, and would make almost any story readable. Mr. Bramston's plot......

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Sons.)—Little Lady Betty is a very charming child, the orphan daughter of a certain Lord Estridge. She comes down, after her father's death, to the family house, under the......