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An Introduction To Latin Textual Emendation. By W. M,...

(Macmillan and Co.)—We have often wondered that this subject has not been utilised in England for educational purposes. Hagen's " Gradus ad Criticen " has for some years been......

Mercy Warren. By Alice Brown. (john Murray.)—the Author...

book has gallantly contended with her fate. She had to write a book upon a woman of whom very little is known, and the result is really one which we cannot think interesting. It......

A Yoke Of Steel. By C. 3. Wells And Godley

Burchett. (Hurst and Blackett.)—The two authors have, we think, achieved a dis- tinct success in the telling of this story. If there is nothing novel about the subject nor......

Prehistoric Man And Beast. By The Rev. H. N. Hutchinson,

F.G.S. (Smith, Elder, and Co )—The author of this volume has attempted to bring together in a popular form some of the con- clusions and guesses of geologists as to the early......

Battles 4:1,f The Nineteenth Century. By Archibald...

Meaty, Major Arthur Griffiths, and others. Vol. II. (Cassell and Co.)--This handsome volume, with nearly eight hundred pages, and abundant illustrations, completes a work cf......

Benjamin's Sack. By Meta C. Scott. (ward, Lock, And Bowden.)

—We cannot help feeling that this story is constructed on wrong principles. The author seems to have asked herself,—How can I picture a man enduring the greatest possible amount......

Notes On Browning. (national Home-reading Union.)—the...

course to the study of Browning. This little volume is devoted to the help of readers who have taken to this subject. The introduction, after long general reflections on the......

Across The Zodiac. By Edwin Pallander. (digby, Long And...

" story of adventure " is what may be called an astronomical extravaganza. Edgar Poe tried his hand at this kind of writing, and with remarkable success. It is the sort of thing......