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Ecliseenda. By Joseph Wood, D.d. (rivington, Percival,...

has made here a collection of excellent passages, Greek and Latin (the Latin naturally occupying the larger space), for learning by heart. We cannot do better than quote a......

Hay Wells : Their Legends And Traditions. By Robert Charles

Hope. (Elliot Stock.)—This is a volume full of curious lore, gathered together, it is evident, with much labour and care. The arrangement is by counties. Cornwall occupies a......

Current Literature.

Essays in London and Elsewhere. By Henry James. (J. R. Osgood, McIlvaine, and Co.)—To many readers, the first of these essays, a rhapsody, so to speak, curiously made up of......

The Magazines.

THE Magazines, like the rest of the world, show evident signs of the relief experienced on the rejection of the Home-rule Bill by the Lords. That nightmare passed away, they......

The Soil In Relation To Health. By H. A. Miers,

M.A., and R. Crosskey, M.A. (Maomillan.)—One of the authors overheard the remark," Country water is always pure and good;" a doctrine which they believe to be commonly hold, and......

Emmet Bonlore. By °pit; Read. (sampson Low And Co.)—this Is

not so much a story—though there is a slender thread of narrative in it—as a photograph, severely faithful, of life in Arkansas. Pretty rough that life seems to be, if Mr.......