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The Library Review. Edited by Kineton Parkes. (Hutchinson and Co.)—We

have the first volume of this "Record of Current Literature." The criticisms are signed, a practice for which much is to be said ; but which somehow does not—in this country, at least—seem to command more confidence than the more con- venient anonymity. It must be allowed that some of the gentle- men who contribute to The Library Review do not want courage. The reviewer of the Pagan Review is a conspicuous example. To coin the word " unvirile "—by which he seems to mean what most people call "decent "—is one of the least of his ventures.— We have also received the ninth volume (new series) of Great Thoughts (A. W. Hall).