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Signals Of Distress. By Blanchard Jerrold. (sampson Low,...

Co.)—It is not easy to see the object of this work. It consists of a description of the vice and poverty of London, and incidentally of the institutions for their relief which......

The Diseases Of Women. By Graily Hewitt, M.d., London,...

(Longman and Co.)—The plan adopted by Dr. Hewitt in treating his subject is remarkable on account of the great prominence which he gives to diagnosis. " The difficulties......

Culture And Self - Culture. By Samuel Neil (houlston And...

really think we are not speaking too harshly when wo call this pamphlet a mass of rhetorical rubbish from which no human being can derive a single useful hint. Take an extract......

Maps --wo Have Received A Copy Of A New Edition

of Messrs. Allen and Co.'s Map of India, by very far the best which exists of that great peninsula. In the present edition the whole of Upper India has been redrawn upon......

Handbook To The Cotton Cultivation In The Madras...

J. Talboys Wheeler. (Virtue, Brothers, and Co.)—Tho Indian Govern- ment was desirous of having an analysis prepared of the public records relating to cotton cultivation in......

Three Essays. (smith, Elder, And Co.)—these Are The...

a thoughtful and accomplished mind. In the first, entitled, "Learning and Science," the author maintains the theory that the distinction between learning and science is not a......

The Slavery Quanel By A Poor Peacemaker. (robert...

pamphlet commences with a most comical perversion of history. Negro slavery is compared with the Roman and Norman invasions of England, and the English invasion of India, and it......

Les Noces De La Lune. Par Lo Chevalier De Chatelain.

(Pickering.) A translation into good French, which may have been worth making, though we cannot see it.......

The Necessary Existence Of God. By William Honyman...

edition. (Houlston and Wright.)—There is a frank conceit in the writer of this book which is very charming. It seems he owns an estate in Scotland, and had a lawsuit about the......

First Steps To Euclid. By A. K. Isbister, M.a. (longman

and Co.)— The propositions of the First Book as they should be written in an ex- amination. Premises and conclusion are always in different lines, and the principal conclusions......

Annotations On The Gospel Of St. Mark. By The Rev.

C. Holme. (Longman and Co.)—This is an attempt to supply a short commentary especially adapted for candidates for the University middle-class exa- minations, or other persons......