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Mr. De La Rue's Scientific And Very Useful Diaries,...

books, and pocket-books for 1870, edited by Mr. Glaisher, have already appeared. The strong russia-leather pocket-book for gentlemen, the. gilt green morocco pocket-book for......

Janus On The Council.* [first Notice.]

THE coming CEcumenical Council, if it does no more, will be productive of a heavy crop of literature. In France, in Holland, and in Germany there has already appeared a......

King Gab's Story-bag, And The Wonderful Stories It...

Heraclitus Grey. (Cassell, Patter, and Galpin.)—From the first story in this book it appears that King Gab was originally a poor boy who. could do nothing practical, but that he......

Papers From Over The Water. By Sinclair Tommy. (new York

: American News Company.)—Mr. Sinclair, starting for Europe, was asked by his friends to write to them about what he saw. He complied by writing to the newspapers which his......

Current Literature.

The Bible the People's Charter. By Michael Thomas Sadler. (Long- mans.)—The best part of Mr. Sadler's book is that in which he discusses what he calls the "agrarian law" of the......