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In the "Library of Standard Biographies" (Hutchinson and Co., Is.

and 28.) we have The Life of Wellington, by William Hamilton Maxwell, Abridged and Newly Edited, with Notes, by the Rev. L. T. Dodd. Mr. Dodd's notes, brought though they are within the narrow compass of less than seven pages, add con- siderably to the value of the book. He points out that Maxwell, by following the guidance of Napier, sometimes is led away by that writer's personal and political prepossessions. And he makes various corrections on points of fact and strategical opinion,—as, for instance, on Sir John Moore's conduct of the famous retreat. —From the same publishers we have received The Adventures of Roderick 1landom, by Tobias Smollett (Is. 6d. and 2s. 6d.), in the series of "Classic Novels."