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Gerald And Harry; Or, The Boys In The North. By

Emilia Marryat Norris. (Griffith and Farran.)—How the boys came to be in the North, and what they did there, will be seen on reference to Mrs. Norris's story. If the adventures......

Nursery Tales. A New Version. By Mrs. R. Valentine. (f.

Warne and Co.)—We object on principle to the critical method being applied to that portion of the early history of mankind of which the scene is laid in the nursery. Whether the......

A Bushel Of 41feny Thoughts. By Wilhelm Busch. Described And

ornamented by Harry Rogers. (Low, Son, and Marston.)—The illus- trations in this work have appeared in a Munich comic paper, and are well known in South Germany. Their style of......

The Belgravia Annual. Edited By Miss Madden....

Lead, otherwise 1Varne's Christmas Annual. Edited by Mrs. R. Valentine. (F. Warne and Co.)—These two collections of seasonable stories and verses may serve as types of the many......

The Vernons Of Holly Mount. By Maggie Symington. (a. W.

Bennett.)—A fair little story, which would be better if its moral was not forced upon its readers, and if all its incidents were not too abrupt in themselves, and too closely......

Upside Down; Or, Turnover Traits. From Original Sketches...

late William McConnell. (Griffith and Farran.)—Some of these eketches impress us more favourably and give us a higher conception of Mr. McConnell's power than the drawings which......

Current Literature.

Branuras.—Of ten as we have been puzzled to find an appropriate heading for paragraphs which seem mere quotations from library cata- logues, we never felt this want so keenly as......

1 Old Merry's Christmas Party. (jackson, Walford, And...

contents of this book are just what we might expect from its title. The young folks are supposed to have a Christmas party, in the midst of which some well known writers are......

Handy Royal Atlas Of Modern Geography, Exhibiting The...

of Geographical Discovery and Research in the several Countries, Empires, and States of the World. By Alexander Keith Johnston. (Blackwood, Edinburgh, 1868.)—This is Mr. Keith......