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Effie Ogilvie. By Mrs. Oliphant. (macmillan.)—the...

depends on the careful analysis of a simple girl's heart. We should almost doubt whether any girl could be quite so inexperienced and innocent as Mrs. Oliphant's heroine. No......

Claldren's Stories In American History. By Henrietta...

and Son.)—These stories open up, as far as we are aware, a new field for the quite young English children, for whom they are specially written. The style, language, and......

Quiet Waters : Essays On Some Streams Of Scotland. By

" H. W. H.' (J. and II. Parlane, Paisley.)—This little book, of a hundred and seventy pages, has, no doubt, been a labour of love, and will have sympathetic readers in the......