SOME BOOKS OF THE WEEK.
[Under this heading we notice such Books of the week as hays not been rammed for review in other forma
• paid over. Mr. L. Cope Cornford contributes an " Eulogy " ; Sir Edward Clarke writes about the "Lawyers of Charles Dickens" —there is a very characteristic young lawyer in "Bleak House" whom we hoped to find, but, of course, there are limits of space. Mr. Percy Fitzgerald gives us some "Memories," going back as far as 1857; there are records of stage performances, the earliest being one of " Barnaby Budge" in 184,1; Bret Harto's memorial verses, "Dickens in Camp," written on receiving tho news of his aoath, follow. After these come seven characteristic extracts from the works, succeeded by Swinburne's sonnet, "Chief, in thy generation born of men." As for pictures besides portraits, facsimiles of handwriting, &c., there is an ample show of illustrations, eighteen sets of seven each, for various works, beginning with "Sketches by Boz" and ending with "Edwin Drood." The book deserves a good sale for its own sake and an exceptional one in view of its
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