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Preparatory Thoughts For Good Friday. By Julia S. Blunt. (w.

Macintosh.)—This is a very good and seasonable tract. It is addressed more especially to working men, and we trust many of them will read it. They will find that the authoress......

Ing The Working Classes With Sincerity. Its Chief...

are short histories of successive strikes, and these chapters, though valu- able as reflecting on the political economy of such combinations, do not contain any theory on the......

Reading For Honours. A Tale. By U. N. 0. (a.

W. Bennett.)—E. fair little tale, though decidedly young, and more likely to proceed from one who is in the act of verifying his title than from one who has already gained such......

How I Rose In The World. 2 Vols. (skeet.)—the Author

of this story has not yet gone through the same process as his hero, and we are afraid ho will find his task quite as difficult. We may fairly infer from his style, from the......

Scripture Portraits And Other Miscellanies. Collected...

writings of Arthur Penrhyn Stanley, D.D. (Strahan.)—This volume contains portraits of patriarchs, judges, kings, and prophets, taken from Dean Stanley's Jewish Church ; sketches......

Messrs. Bell And Daldy Have In Preparation A Volume Of

photographs, chiefly illustrative of places mentioned in the Queen's book. The photographs have been prepared by a process discovered by Mr. Joseph Adam, the specialty of which......

Leben And Kunst. Gedichte. Von. M. M. Kalisch. (leipsic,...

; London, Nutt.)—Reading these poems has been a painful and thankless task, and our only satisfaction is that a time came for closing the volume. Dr. Kalisch suffers from an......

Wonderful Inventions : From The Mariner's Compass To The...

Telegraph Cable. By John Timbs. (Routledge.)—Another of Mr. Timbs's industrious and useful compilations. We have in it the history of the mariner's compass, the lighthouse, the......