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.extracts From The Minutes Of Evidence Taken By The Royal

Commiuion on Vivisection, published by the " Society for the Protection of Animals liable to Vivisection," have been sent to us, and we may say that they contain a very......

Select Private Orations Of Demosthenes. Part Ii. Sandys...

(Cambridge University Press.)—In this volume we have six of Demosthenes' private speeches, well selected and very carefully edited. We reviewed some months ago Part L, and wo......

The Fool Of The Family, And Other Tales. By John

Dangerfield. 2 vols. (Sampson Low and Co.)—The story from which these volumes get their name is a good one on the whole. We do not see exactly the author's point. Edward Wynter......

White's Natural History And Antiquities Of Selborne. With...

Frank Buckland, and a Chapter on Antiquities by Lord Selborne. (Macmillan.)—That this is a very handsome volume, and such as the countless admirers of Gilbert White may well......

"mann " And Manners At The Court Of Florence, 1740 - 1780.

Founded on the Letters of Horace Mann to Horace Walpole. By Dr. Doran, F.S.A. (Bentley and Son.)—Dr. Doran is a pleasant writer, who has a remarkable faculty for inspiring one......

Histcny Of Prince Edward Island. By Duncan Campbell....

Bremmer.)—This is a carefully compiled book on a little - known corner of our Colonial Empire, and as we are candidly informed in the preface that the "land question " is a......

Cinderella : A New Version Of An Old Stcny. (samuel

Tinsley.)— We have nothing but praise for this quiet little story, though the title, we must say, rather frightened us. The vein of applied fairy-tales, first so happily struck......