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Papers Of The Manchester Literary Club. Vol. Xviii....

volume contains the Manchester Quarterly for 1892 and also the Report and Proceedings of the Club. The thirty essays forming the bulk of the work are of very varied merit, but......

Current Literature.

Essays on Naval Defence. By Vice-Admiral P. H. Colomb. (W. H. Allen and Co.)—Books dealing with the question of Naval Defence are rare, and we must welcome Vice-Admiral Colomb's......

Types Of Animal Life. By St. George Mivart. (osgood,...

and Co.)—Mr. St. George Mivart knows how to com- bine scientific accuracy with lucid and fascinating description, and in this handsome volume he has selected the most striking......

The Great World's Farm. By Selina Gaye. (seeley And Co.)—

This is a most excellent, readable, and useful work of a kind which the author has now become quite an expert in producing. The title is borrowed from Mr. Henry Drummond's......

Roughing It In Queensland.* The Danish Emigrant Who...

experiences so typical of pioneering life in a new country, tells us a little about himself in the introduction. He was born in Copenhagen, and worked at his father's trade,......

The Intermediate Text-book Of English Literature. Vol....

H. Low, M.A. (Clive.)—This is one of the text-books of the "University Correspondence College Tutorial Series," and em- braces the period from the accession of Elizabeth to the......

The Evolution Of Decorative Art. By H. Balfour. (percival...

Co.)—The process of artistic evolution in mankind is admirably described in these hundred and odd pages. The three stages— adaptive, copying, and variation—are illustrated, and......