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Collins's Library Dictionary.*

OF every new dictionary that comes into the market we have a right to ask the reason of its coining. "Are you better or handier than your predecessors, or merely put forth......

Current Literature.

Catena Classicorum : Demosthenes, with English Notes. Part I. De Corona. By the Rev. Arthur Holmes, M.A. (Rivington.)—Mr. Holmes has compressed into a convenient shape the......

Wilfrid Cumbermede.*

THIS is a really beautiful book, which will delight Mr. Mac- donald's great circle of admirers—we had almost said disciples— and by which those who profess a sterner and more......