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Life and Letters of Washington Irving. Vol IV. By Pierre M. Irving. (Richard Bentley.)---For English readers these four volumes should have been compressed into one. In America......

The Arabian Nights' Entertainments. (whittaker And Co.)...

has "arranged" this edition for the perusal of youthful readers, and it leaves nothing to be desired in point of shape, size, type, and paper. Nor do we object to the removal of......

Tales Of Thebes And Argos. By The Rev. G. W.

Cox, M.A. (Long- man and Co.)—The author is already well known by his previous publications as an earnest student of the science of comparative mythology. He is, of course, a......

Life Portraits Of Shakespeare.*

NATIONS erect statues to a departed worthy for one of two rea- sons, either to correct their short memories and give to his perishing reputation a duration at least as long as......

Wise Sayings Of The Great And Good. (whittaker And Co.) —

On the whole, a good volume of selections. The error of citing passages from our own best-known writers is avoided, but we certainly get too much of the compiler's modern pets.......

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