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.physics In. Pictures, With Explanatory Text, Prepared By...

and translated by A. H. Keane (Stanford), belongs to "Stanford's Series of Instructive Picture-books." The "principal natural phenomena and appliances " are pictorially......

Tack-by-the-hedge. By Selina Gaye. (seeley And Co.)—this,...

is a true story, and a very good story, too. Jack is a "waif," whom a kind-hearted lawyer, who knows better than most men who is his " neighbour," befriends. He becomes......

Shakespeare's Historical Plays. By Charles Wordsworth,...

Andrews. Vols. II. and III. (Blackwood and Sons.)— Bishop Wordsworth has completed in these volumes the tank of editing, with a certain amount of revision, excision, and......

The Midnight Cry, By E. M'hardie (s. W. Partridge And

Co.), presents the voucher of Lord Shaftesbury for its value. It is a work on prophecy, and is described as "an inquiry into the evidence (chronological, historical, and......

Two Pamphlets On Important Points Of Domestic Economy...

brief notice. Babies : How to Rear Them, by F. A. Fawkes (W. Swan Sonnenschein and Co.), is fall of sensible suggestions. We shall quote one paragraph, derived from the author's......