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It Is Satisfactory To See That The New English Dictionary,

edited by Dr. James A. H. Murray (Clarendon Press), is progressing satisfactorily. Two parts are now before us. One, under the editorship of Mr. H. Bradley, completes "Letter E......

" The Catalogue Of Common Things Is No More Common,

no more dull," and that- "Poetic imag'ry is worn To shreds and patches," and pleads for a "fusing voice" (what is a "fusing voice" ?) that shall- " Chant in plain strains the......

Random Recollections. By The Rev. George Huntington....

Co.)—Mr. Huntington's recollections are of Manchester. He tells us about two Bishops,—about Dr. Prince Lee, an admirable scholar, who was not quite in his right place in a......

Burdett's Official Intelligencer, 1894. By Harry C....

and Co.)—This large volume, of nearly eighteen hundred quarto pages, contains an exhaustive account of all "British, American, and Foreign Securities." In these are included......

The Pulpit Commentary. Edited By The Very Rev. H. D.

N. Spence, and Rev. Joseph S. Exell. (Kogan Paul, Trench, and Co.)— This volume includes six of the Minor Prophets, Nahum— Malachi, and so brings the Old Testament to an end.......

The Irish Diurnal, 1898. Compiled By W. Geo. Cox And

Joseph Robert Clegg. (Harrison and Sons.)—This is the first 138110 of what promises to be a useful book. It is, to quote the descrip- tion given on the title-page, "a record......