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Through North Wales With A Knapsack. By Four...

Paul and Co.)—The "Four Schoolmistresses," according to this, their joint production, enjoyed themselves thoroughly, and they had a seventeen days' walking-tour for less than £4......

Outlines Of General Chemistry. By Wilhelm Ostwald....

Walker, D.Sc. (Macmillan and Co.)—An exposition such as this is, by Professor Ostwald, of the standing of physical chemistry at the present day, is just the sort of treatment......

Claude And Claudia. By Mrs. Herbert Martin. (griffith,...

Co.)—This is a somewhat melancholy story—melan- choly stories seem to us somewhat out of place in the peculiar kind of literature which we are now reviewing—but written with......

Health At Home Tracts. By Alfred Schofield, M.d....

Society.)—In a series of chapters devoted to the innumerable pre- cautions necessary to ensure a long life, Dr. Schofield carries the reader along between the physical and......

Odatis : A Poem. By Lewis Morris. Illustrated By Alice

Havers and G. P. Jacomb Hood. (Hildesheimer and Faulkner.)—It is not by any means the first time that this " old love-tale " has been told. It might, indeed, have been as well......

Beyond The Argentine. By May Frances. (w. H. Allen And

Co.)—A lady has in this little volume recorded her six months , experience of " up-country " life in Brazil, on one of the branches of the Uruguay. She joined her brother, who......

The Little Colonists. By Theo. Gift. (griffith, Farran,...

—" Penguin-Land" is the sub-title of the story, and the scene is laid in the Falkland. Islands, which seem a more endurable place of residence than one would have thought.......

Cassell's Saturday Journal. (cassell And Co.) — The...

an abundance of entertaining reading. Perhaps we might say that their " fictionists " (a hideous but not inconvenient word) are slightly sensational, as their humorists are......

Elementary Geology. By Charles Bird, B.a. (longman And...

Mr. Bird has succeeded in making his Geology instructive, and certainly readable. He keeps clear of all argument or discussion on matters where the temptation to raise a......

Rollica Reed. By Eliza Kerr. (griffith, Farran, And...

not seem to us a very likely story. Rollica is too good; Kate Hamilton, who is the black foil to her white, is too bad, and so is her mother. Surely two people could never have......

The Twin Houses, And Other Tales. By Anne Beale. (religious

Tract Society.)—These seven tales of "real life," as the author describes them, are of very considerable merit. It is not easy to read them with a dry eye; but as there is......

Rather At Sea. By F. C. Burnand. (bradbury, Agnew, And

Co.) —Of this collection of Mr. Burnand's dispersed members, some are good, some indifferent, some bad. We regret to say that the oldest are the best. " On Board the Amarintha "......