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Guide To The Choice Of Classical Books. By Joseph B.

Mayor, M.A. (Bell and Sons.)—Mr. J. B. Mayor (whom our readers will distin- guish from Mr. John E. B. Mayor, the learned editor of Jnvenal) has given in this volume a most......

A Specimen Of Economic "adaptation."*

THE special of the Muses seems to accompany in every de- partment the labour of those remarkable examples of unappreciated industry, the " adapters " of foreign authors. The......

Merry England; Or, Nobles And Serfs. By W. H. Ainsworth.

3 vols. (Tinsley Brothers.)—There is little to be said about Mr. Ainsworth's romances except to announce what the title does not always explain, the subject with which they......