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The Day, The Book, And The Teacher. A Centenary Memorial.

By Edwin Paxton Hood. (Sunday-School Union.)—The "centenary" of which this is a memorial is the centenary of Sunday-schools. Mr. Hood makes a reasonably good little book out of......

Current Literature.

Lyrics and Idylls, with other Poems. By Edmund Clarence Stedman. (C. Kogan Paul and Co.)—Mr. Stedman has selected, we aro told, for this volume, "those poems which ho desires to......

The History Of France, From 1789 To 1848. By M.

Gnizot. Edited by Madame de Witt, née Guizot. Vol. IV. (Sampson Low and Co.)— It is not clear how much of this volume is due to the authorship of M. Gnizot. On the whole, we......

The London Market-gardens : Flowers, Fruits, And...

for Market. By C. W. Shaw. (37 Southampton Street.)— This book is primarily meant for purposes of trade, but private growers and amateurs may learn not a little from its pages.......

Recollections Of Workhouse Visiting And Management. By...

Kegan Paul and Co.)—Miss Twining contributed an article on this subject to the New Quarterly Magazine last year, and this she new reprints, with additions and appendices. The......

Imperial England. By Montagu Burrows, R.n., M.a....

Galpin.)—This is but a mean result of the richest Pro- fessorship of the University of Oxford. To think what is done in return for the poorest stipends in Germany, and then to......

Memoir Of The Rev. Henry Venn. By The Rev. William

Knight. (Longmans.)—Mr. Venn was the seventh in descent of a long line of clergymen, the first of whom, William Venn (or the first that can be traced) was vicar of Otterton, in......

London Town: Sketches Of London Life And Character. By...

Fall. Two vols. (Tinsley Brothers.)—We cannot say that we have found any amusement in Mr. Fall's humour. A caricature, to be successful, must at least remind us of the original.......