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How Scotland Lost Her Parliament. By Charles Waddie....

Co., Limited, Edinburgh.)—The author of this curious little book is the leader of the Home-rule movement in Scotland. His object in writing it is to advocate the revival of a......

Fantasy. By Matilda Serao. Translated From The Italian By...

Harland and Paul Sylvester. (William Heinemann.)— Mr. Gosse, who edits the curious "International Library" series of books to which this volume belongs, claims for its author,......

Samantha Among The Brethren. By The Author Of "josiah...

Wife." (Ward, Lock, and Co.)—This is an undoubtedly clever, and, within limits, successful, attempt to reproduce certain phases of American neo-Puritanism and country life. The......

In The Series Of "great Artists" (sampson Low And Co.),

we have to acknowledge three volumes, David Car and Peter de "Wint, by Gilbert E. Redgrave ; Mulready, by Frederick G. Stephens ; and George Cruikshank, by the same author. Cox......

We Have Received The Second Volume Of A Dictionary Of

Applied Chemistry, by T. G. Thorpe, B S.C. (Longmans). Mr. Thorpe gives a list of contributors which, coupled with his own name, sufficiently commends the volume to the notice......

Current Literature.

Colonial Office List for 1891. Compiled by John Anderson and Sidney Webb. (Harrison and Sons.)—This annual publication contains a mass of manifold information concerning the......

Liberty And A Living. By Philip Hubert, Jun, (putnam'a...

Hubert takes his motto from Thoreau, and, on hie own showing, has tried to live on Thoreauist principles, for his. book is "an attempt to secure bread and 'butter, sunshine and......

Studies In Jocular Literature. By W. Carew Hazlitt....

—This book does not profess to be a collection of " ana," or to be in any respect fragmentary in character ; on the contrary, the alternative title is "A Popular Subject more......