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Melody : The Story Of A Child. By Laura E.

Richards. (Gay and Bird.)—The child is blind and has a lovely voice, a gift with which she is content to bless those about her, not caring to purchase the applause and favour of......

A Gentleman Adventurer. By John Bloundell-burton. (andrew...

Panama" is a very spirited narrative of adventure. It tells how a certain Hugh Bellenden journeyed to the Isthmus to take part in the colonisation scheme which William Fergusson......

Current Literature.

One of the leading foreign crises of the time is reflected in the excellent March number of the Sunday at Home — the seventeenth of what promises to be a very interesting and......

The Paintings Of Venice. By Karl Karoly. (boll And Sons.)—

This "Historical and Critical Account of All the Pictures in Venice" is a very bandy and portable volume. Mr. Karoly gives us, by way of introduction, a chart of the Venetian......

The Great Secret. By Hume Nisbet. (f. V. White And

Co.)— There is a falling-away in Hume Nisbet's latest romance ; it is very unequal, almost slipshod in the beginning, and occasionally very crude. What is the secret? If it be......