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Ides Judicatw : Papers And Essays. By Augustine Birrell....

Stock.)—Mr. Birrell is an attractive writer. He has read much, and knows how to use his knowledge. He is blessed with a sense of humour and a good style; and humour and style......

A Garrison Romance. By Mrs. Leith-adams. (eden, Reming-...

Co.)—This is a good story, of course about love rather than war, for such is the wont of military romances, but satisfactory in its construction, and told with force. Mr. Jones,......

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visite England after an absence of thirty years, and took on his way most of the other Australasian Colonies, Ceylon, Port Said, Italy, and Spain. Unfortunately, he stops in his......

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and Sons.)—Some twenty odd pages of autobiography, containing reminiscences of medical and literary life—for Pro- fessor Morley began life as a doctor—are remarkably......

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study, that it was written to compete for a college prize, for the volume opens in the grandiose style of s young man ambitious of saying fine things in fine language. Mr.......

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