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A Reader's Guide to Contemporary Literature. By William Swan Sonnenschein.

(Swan Sonnenschein and Co.)—This volume is described as the "First Supplement to the Best Books," and fur- ther as a " Reader's Guide to the Choice of the Best Available Books in every Department of Science, Art, and Literature." And how many does the reader suppose these "best books avail- able " to be P Fifty thousand! As a subject-catalogue of modern books, the volume will be found very useful.