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Popular County Histories : A History Of Derbyshire. By John

Pendleton. (Elliot Stock.)—If the reader of this volume is inclined to question its right to be called a history, he will allow that it forms an entertaining collection of......

Popular Songs Of Ireland. Collected By Thomas Crofton...

an Introduction by Henry Morley. (Routledge.)—This is one of Professor Morley's shilling reprints, and a lively shilling's-worth it is. The book was first published in 1830, and......

Current Literature.

Byron : Childe Harold. Edited by H. F. Tozer, M.A. (Clarendon Press.)—Mr. Tozer follows in his editon the usual method pursued in dealing with a Latin or Greek classic, giving a......

Old Stone Crosses Of The Vale Of Clywd And Neighbouring

Parishes. By the Rev. Elias Owen, M.A. (Bernard Quaritch.)—This is a handsome volume, fully illustrated, and the work, it is evident, of one who has brought to his task as much......

Britons In Brittany. By " G. H. F." (sampson Low

and Co.)— This pleasant and entertaining book should, by rights, have been noticed earlier in the year. It might then have been utilised for a purpose to which it is really very......

The Pilgrim At Home. By Edward Walford, M.a. (s.p.c.k.)—...

sketches of English scenes made memorable by literature or history are reprints from magazines, with corrections and additions. Whether their merit entitles them to be brought......