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A Handbook Of Proverbs, Mottoes, Quotations, And Phrases....

James Allan Main (Routledge.)--31r. Muir has taken much pains with his work, and produced a volume which, if not entirely satisfactory, has very considerable merits. Those more......

Marjorie Daw And Other People. By Thomas Bailey Aldrich....

Marjorie Daw " is a very skilfully constructed and very amusing little story. John Flemming, a wealthy young gentleman of twenty-four, is laid up with a broken leg, and becomes......

The English Gipsies And Their Language. By Charles G....

(Trilbner.)—Mr. Leland has studied the Gipsies in the same way iu which Mr. Borrow, of whose work in this direction he speaks with the highest respect, studied them, by living......

A Dictionary Of Artists Of The English School. By Samuel

Redgrave. (Longmans.)—The two qualifications of a really good dictionary—that A Dictionary of Artists of the English School. By Samuel Redgrave. (Longmans.)—The two......

Longer Works, But They Will Be Widely Read, And Deserve

the credit duo to an honest purpose and a keen sympathy with the subject of which he treats. Mr. Farjeon's proposition amounts to this,—given radical difference of home and......

The Army Of Von Steinmetz In 1870.* Among The Narratives

compiled by staff officers from the head- quarter archives of the corps to which they were attached, special interest belongs to the story of the First Army, under the gallant......

Current Literature.

Foods. By Edward Smith, M.D. (Henry S. King and Co.)—Dr. Smith discusses, with much minuteness, the economical and sanitary-value of the various kinds of animal and vegetable......