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Blackie's Standard Dictionary. (Blackie and Son. 2s. net.)— This has
the look of a very serviceable volume. It is of manageable size (7 in. by 4} in. by 1 in.), bound in leather, as much- handled books ought to be, with a useful collection of informa- tion in the appendices,—as, e.g., a series of illustrations of mechanical movements.