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The Magazines.

SIR CHARLES GA.VAN DUFFY, in the Contemporary, writes a most eloquent account of the finding, colonisation, and prosperity of Victoria, which he attributes in great measure to......

Voluntaries For An, East London Hospital. (david...

this volume has been unduly delayed, but coming now, it is not, we hope, unseasonable. Some twenty contributors have written for it, a curiously mingled company, among whom we......

_fancy Dresses Described. By Ardern Holt. (debenham And...

is the fifth edition, corrected and much enlarged, of a work which has already met with much favour. In these days when the drama is so largely spectacular, the stage suggests......

Literary Epochs. By G. F. Underhill. (elliot Stook.)—mr....

object in this volume is "tic prove that the practical events of the world are reflected in the mirror of contemporary writings," and that great writers generally come "in......

Poetry.—minora Carmine. By " C. C. R." (sonnenscbein And...

we see vers de societd, we naturally think of Praed and Mr. Frederick Locker, and are consequently inclined to be somewhat severe in our judgment. "C. C. R." is wanting, if he......

Current Literature.

Mrs. Penicott's Lodger, and cther Stories. By Lady Sophia Palmer. (Macmillan and Co.)—Lady Sophia Palmer shows a great deal of power in these stories ; indeed, in at least three......