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Romance of Real Life. (Religious Tract Society.)—Here we have four-and-twenty

"True Incidents in the Lives of the Great and Good," appropriately illustrated with nearly twice as many pictures. A Moravian missionary in the Nicobar Island, John Knox, Robert Moffat the missionary, Sir Henry Havelock, Com- modore Goodenough, Samuel Adjai Crowther, who was brought as a slave-boy from the interior, and is now an Anglican Bishop, and another Bishop of African fame, the admirable Hannington, are among the heroes whose perils, escapes, and achievements are commemorated in this volume.