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The Crime Of Keziah Keene. By Mrs. Vere Campbell. (ward

and Downey.)—The authoress, or some character who seems to speak for her, asks about the heroine, when—to the great relief, we should think, of all readers—she is satisfactorily......

Selections From Wordsworth. By William Knight, And Other...

the Wordsworth Society. With Preface and Notes. (Kegan Paul.)—We are glad that this interesting volume, which contains so much of Wordsworth's finest work—that is to say, of the......

An "i.d.b." In South Africa. By Louise Vescelius-sheldon....

Co.)—If we are to believe the writer, a somewhat An "I.D.B." in South Africa. By Louise Vescelius-Sheldon. (Trubner and Co.)—If we are to believe the writer, a somewhat low......

A Text - Book Of Inorganic Chemistry. By Ira Remsen....

on the whole, has much resemblance to Professor Remsen's smaller text-books. It is larger indeed, and it is fuller in treatment ; but then, we are not sure that the value of the......

A Year With The Birds. By W. Warde Fowler. Third

edition, enlarged. (Macmillan and Co.)—It is unnecessary to say much in favour of this delightful book, which was reviewed in our columns on its first appearance about three......

Sermons.—the Light That Lighteth Every Man. Sermons By...

B.D. With an Introduction by the Very Rev. the Dean of Wells. (Macmillan.)—Dean Russell (he was Dean of Adelaide for seventeen years, 1869-1886) was by birth and training a......

Paradoxes Of A Philistine. By William S. Walsh....

Co., Philadelphia, U.S.A.)—The writer justifies, in a way, his self-taken title. But neither is he properly a Philistine, nor does he write paradoxes. Leaving the word itself as......

The House Of The Woifings. By William Morris. (reeves And

Turner.)—There can be no doubt that, whatever extravagancies exist in The House of the Wotfings, Mr. William Morris has caught in a marvellous manner the martial stir and the......

Such Matters As Signalling, Traffic, Permanent-way, And...

the liability of Companies, are common to most rail- ways, but the geneial tenor of the work reflects the working of Mr. Findlay's own line ; while the description of engines,......

Express Trains, English And Foreign. By E. Foxwell And T.

C. Farrer. (Smith, Elder, and Co.)—We get in this volume details as to all the express trains in England, the Continent, and America. It is, indeed, very comprehensive, with......