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The Poems Of Horace : A Literal Translation. By A.

Hamilton Bryce, LL.D. (Bell and Sons.)—We have no clear remembrance of Smart's translation, "carefully revised by an Oxonian," which used to figure in " Bohn's Classical Library......

The Mermaid, And Other Pieces. By E. Patterson. (rees And

Co., Cardiff.)—This volume is a curious medley of good and bad. We are given to understand that Mr. Patterson has been a sailor, and in his principal poem he uses his sea......

Mr. Blake Of Newmarket. By Edward H. Cooper. (heinemann.)...

is a really brilliant book. (Why disfigured by so peculiarly hideous a cover ?) "The Newmarket folk are only human beings complicated by the horse," says the Professor who gives......

Burns And His Times. By J. O. Mitchell, Ll.d. (maclehose

and Sons, Glasgow.) — It is refreshing to turn from the rhetoric and rhodomontade which are so plentiful on Burns Anniversaries and the like to a careful and instructive study......

My Bonnie Lady. By Leslie Keith. (jarrold And...

a great feud between the Mintos and the Iuglises, the first family having gone down in the world owing, they think, to the machinations of the second. The "Bonnie Lady"......

My Garden, Orchard, And Spinney. By Phil Robinson....

Co.)—Mr Phil Robinson is as entertaining as usual. He goes on watching birds as closely as ever, and is always discovering new things about them. One of the things which we......

Abbe Constantin. By Ludovic Halevy. Translated From The...

Therese Batbedat. (Macqueen.)—Many of our readers, it is probable, have read this story in the original, for it has reached, we are told, the hundred and seventy-sixth edition.......

A Concordance To The Greek Testament. Edited By The Rev.

W. F. Moulton and the Rev. A. S. Geden. (T. and T. Clark.)—The speciality of this Concordance is that it is constructed for the critical texts of the New Testament (Westoott and......

Twenty Years On The Saskatchewan. By The Rev. W. Newton.

(Elliot Stock.)—Mr. Cooper does well to add " N.W. Canada" to the name of the river which distinguishes the region of his labours. It may be further identified as the north-east......