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Our Soldiers And The Victoria Cross. Edited By S. 0.

Boeton. (Ward, Lock, and Tyler.)—The chapters which compose this volume appeared in a boys' magazine, and the book itself is intended for boys. No doubt, such an audience will......

British Grasses. By Margaret Pines. (reeve And Co.)—this...

very full account of the various kinds of grasses, and it is illustrated by sixteen coloured plates, which will be useful to those who are not suffi- ciently versed in the lore......

Tinsley's Magazine. The First Number Of This Now...

public favour has reached us, and is not bad. The first numbers of new magazines usually are very bad, and we have therefore some hope in the new one. It is well printed, though......

Euchologion; Or, Book Of Prayers ; Being Forms Of Worship

issued by the Church Service Society. (Blackwood.)—The Church Service Society is an association of ministers of the Church of Scotland, and its object is the study of Christian......

Among New Editions We Must Give A Prominent Place To

Messrs. Blackwood's cheap re-issue of Adam Bede, as the first volume of the stereotyped edition of George Eliot's novels. Nothing can be more compact and handy than the volume......

The Man Of Sorrows, And His Relationships. (elliot...

author of this little work admits that his views are not novel, and as the statement of them is not so powerful.as to make up for any want of originality, we do not see that ho......

Attain Its Object. But We Think It Was Rather Unnecessary

to open the book by a discussion of the question whether deceased infants can be saved, and as the object of the work is to comfort parents who have been bereaved, it would be......