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Guide To The Western Alps. (longmans.) 1870. Mr. Ball Sends

us a new edition of his admirable guide, which has long been the monn- taineer's best authority on all the region to which it refers. Mr. Ball tells us that even since the last......

The Bairns ; Or Janet's Love And Service. By The

Author of " Christie Redfern's Troubles." (Hodder and Stoughton.)—We have not found this " tale from Canada" very easy reading, though the different scones and manners do......

Exercises In Practical Chemistry, Series I., Qualitative...

G. Vernon-Harcourt and H. G. Madan (Clarendon Press) is a very careful, and, as far as it takes the student, the analysis of a single salt, "one acid and one base," really......