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Black Diamonds. By Maurice Joicai. (jarrold And Sons.)—...

a remarkable story. So much we can see qnite plainly, though there is much in it that it is not for every reader to appreciate or even to understand. No small portion of the......

Kalendar Of The English Church, 1997. (church Printing...

book certainly is in some respects what it professes to be. But it is also something different. It seems to be the deliberate revival of much that was deliberately dropped when......

School Books.

The Alcestis of Euripides. Edited by W. S. Hadley, Fellow and Assistant-Tutor of Pembroke College. Cambridge. (Cam- bridge University Press.)—This play, one of Euripides's......

Eighty Years Ago : The Recollections Of An Oil Army

Doctor. By the late Dr. Gibney. (Bellairs and Co.)—Dr. Gibney describes how he studied medicine at Dublin and Edinburgh, and gives some curious sketches of the Professors whose......

Briseis. By William Black. (sampson Low And Co.)—mr....

meets with a welcome from readers who have the good taste to like simple, natural characters and a wholesome sense of right and wrong,—not always to be found in latter-day......