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The Shadow Of The Raggexlstone, By Charles F. Grindrod...

Marshall, and Co), is a historical romance of the twelfth century, The Shadow of the Raggexlstone, by Charles F. Grindrod (Simpkin, Marshall, and Co), is a historical romance of......

Current Literature.

In .Lothian's Fields : Essays. By Violet Chambers. (J. Drum- mond, North Berwick.)—This is a collection of interesting and prettily-written papers by a lady who knows the......

The Octocentenary Festival Of The University Of Bologna...

Edinburgh), is a readable account, chiefly by Professor Kirkpatrick, of Edinburgh, of the great llistorice-academic func- tion of June last, in the form of a reprint of gossipy......

Mr. Charles Burr Todd, Who Tells The Story Of The

City of New York (Putnams) in a (literally) very weighty volume of nearly five hundred pages, does not command the pen of Washington Irving, which is rather to be regretted,......

The Magazines.

THE Contemporary Review is full of good papers, the best, perhaps, being Mr. James Runciman's account of the Mission among the fishermen. It will, if we are not mistaken, bring......