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The Life Of Samuel Johnson, Ll.d., And The Journal Of

his Tour to the Hebrides. By James Boswell. Illustrated by Sir Joshua Rey- nolds. Edited by Henry Morley. 5 vols. (Routledge and Sons.)— A fineredition of one of the finest......

Ye Eallie L'agly;:he Almanack, 1886 (pettitt), Is...

got up, and contains the usual information, and something more, on dates of flowering of various plants, &c.......

A Schoolmaster's Retrospict. By Maurice C. Rime, M.a....

Marshall, and Co.)—Mr. Hume, in reviewing a period of somewhat more than eighteen years of a schoolmaster's life, takes the opportunity of stating some experiences and......

Irish Pride. By E. Noble. 1 Vol. (bevington And Co.)—this

book—written in very bad English, and by no means correct even in its grammar—is a volume of the most unmitigated trash it is possible to conceive, unredeemed by a single......

Angler To Read. Mr. Green Has Had No Exceptional Experiences

as to the character or the locality of his sport. He began with such bumble sport as the ordinary ponds and streams of a Midland county supply, learned to catch trout in Wales......

The Vivisector's Directory. Edited By Benjamin Bryan,...

by Frances Power Cobbe. This is published by the two associations (Victoria Street and International). It gives an alpha- betical list of vivisectors, with an account of what......

Mere Vole. By Mrs. John Bradshaw. (sonnenschein.)—this...

is evidently meant to exemplify the sentence from Carlyle which stands as its motto, — " There is in man a Higher than love of HappinEns : he can do without Happiness, and......

Sir Centuries Of Work And Wages : The History Of

English Labour. By I. Thorold Rogers, M.P. New Edition, revised in 1 vol. (Swan Sonnenschein and Co.) —We welcome this new and much more con- veuient edition of a book which we......