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A New English Dictionary On Historical Principles. "sor-...

IX.), by W. A. Craigie. (Oxford: Clarendon Press. 5s.)—The great Oxford dictionary pursues its pre- destined career with admirable punctuality. Seven volumes out of the ten are......

The Breath Of The Barren. By L. H. Brinkman. (herbert

Jenkins. 68.)—This story is timely at the present moment, as throwing light on the character of the Boers, though the date is in the " seventies" of the nineteenth century. The......

The Red Mirage. By I. A. R. Wylie. (mills And

Boon. 6s.) —This story deals with the French Foreign Legion, into which most of the male characters enlist in various stages of despera- tion. The personages of the drama are......

The Waverley Edition Of The Works Of Charles Dickens. 30

vols. (Waverley Book Co. 75s. net.)—This new edition of Dickens has many good features. The volumes are handy in size and clear in type. The illustrations are comparatively few,......

Van Cleve. By Mary S. Watts. (macmillan And Co. 6s.)—the

beginning of Mrs. Watts's book fills an with despair : the slow length of family history and introductions unrolls itself, with no hurry and no evident sequence, until we grow......

Old English Furniture, By Frederick Fenn And B. Wyllie;...

Furniture, by Andre Saglio ; Sheffield Plate, by B. Wyllie; Old Pewter, by Malcolm Bell; Dutch Pottery and Porcelain, by W. Pitcairn Knowles; French Pottery and Porce- lain, by......

Readable Novels.—the Bankrupt. By Horace Horenell....

promising beginning the story develops on somewhat dismal lines, the hero's bankruptcy being in everything that makes life worth living. The author, however, displays......

Some Books Of The Week.

[Under via hooding us notice much Book, of tin week ae Moo not boon rettereed for review other forms.] Bibliography of Road-Making and Roads in the United Eingdons. By Dorothy......