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Guadana To Isandhlwana : A Sketch Of The Kafir And

Zulu Wars. By Captain H. H. Parr. (C. Kegan Paul and Co.)—Captain Parr was Military Secretary to Sir Bartle Frere, and it would be impossible for him to have taken any other......

Armenians, Koords, And Turks. By James Creagh. (s....

Co.)—These two volumes are a provoking specimen of bookmaking by a partisan, absolutely the worst kind of man to engage in such work. No doubt, at the present, and for some time......

Literary Frivolities, Fancies, Follies, And Frolics. By...

(Chatto and Windus.)—Mr. Dobson has collected here a number of acrostics, bouts times, anagrams, chronograms (a chronogram may be instanced by the discovery of 666, the "Num-......

Lisa Lena. By Edward Jenkins. 2 Vols. (sampson Low And

Co.)—If we regard this book strictly from the literary point of view, there can be little doubt but that the first volume is a mistake. Lisa Lena, the trapezist, is the real......

An Experimental Cruise In The 'procyon.' By R. T. Mcmullen.

"(Stanford).—Mr. McMullen is one of the enterprising gentlemen who take cruises by themselves, are their own skipper, crew, &c. We have no doubt that he knows his business very......