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Souvenirs Of Tante Claire (mdlle. "tuber* Translated From...

by Mrs. C. H. Gordon. (David Douglas, Edinburgh.)- "Tante Claire" is, as will be seen, the name of affection by which Mdlle. Aubert was known to her family and intimate friends.......

We Have Received Vol. Xi. Of Work : The Illustrated

Weekly Journal for Mechanics, January-July, 1896 (Cassell and Co.) A very curious supplement to No. 357 contains a number of letters from subscribers to the journal who have......

Current Literature.

.St. Nicholas, 1895-96, conducted by Mary Mapes Dodge, Vol. XXIII., Part II. (Macmillan and Co.), begins well with a spirited " Ballad of Betty the Bound-Girl," belonging to the......

We Welcome With Pleasure Another Volume, The Fourth, Of...

: an Illustrated Paper for Boys (Cassell and Co.) The frontispiece is a spirited picture of a lad rescued from a shark. The contents gives the same variety of entertainment as......

Henry Callaway : A Memoir. By Marian S. Benham. (macmillan

and Co.)—Henry Callaway was an excellent specimen of the medical missionary. In early youth he joined the Society of Friends, and his consequent abandonment of a still earlier......

Churchwardens' Accounts Of St. Edmund And St. Thomas...

By Henry James Fowle Swayne. With Introduction by Amy M. Straton. (Bennett Bros., Salisbury.)—The late Mr. Swayne expended a vast amount of labour on the deciphering of the......

Illustrations And Bookbindings.*

WE should say that the valuable parts of Mr. Pennell's book were the early chapters, in which an interesting account is given of the history, technical and personal, of modern......