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Obituary Notices Of Astronomers. By Edward Dunkin....

Dunkin, who was Hon. Secretary to the Royal Astronomical Society from 1871-1877, publishes these notices, which were for the most part written for the annual reports of the......

Flaxman's Classical Outlines : Notes On Their Leading...

a Thief Memoir of the Artist. By John C. L. Sparkes. (Secloys.) TT . his volume contains the outlines, numbering one hundred and forty- six in all, with which Plaxman......

August, We Have Received :— Among Magazines And P

Tinsley's 3fagazine.—Pa1t 2 of the Etcher, containing speci- mens of the work of Messrs. E. S. Chattock, E. L. Montefiore, and C. P. Slocombe, respectively, in copies of......

The Mount. By Thomas Sinclair, M.a. (trfibner And...

of this book seems to us very absurdly chosen, and as to its con- tents and style, we cannot speak favourably. The title is paraphrased into " Speech from English heights,"......

A Ministry Of Health, And Other Addresses. By B. W.

Richardson, M.D., F.R.S. (Ciliate and Windus.)—Dr. Richardson republishes in this volume nine essays, which well deserved preservation. The scope of that which gives its name to......

Schiller's Wilhelm Tell. Translated Into English Blank...

(Hamilton, Adams, and Co.)—The works of the great masters in any language will always provoke those who love both tongues to translate them from the original into their own, and......