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The Story Of Avis. By Elizabeth Stuart Phelps....

Phelps has before this written so well, that it is a great disappoint- ment to find her sending out a book which is, in many places, as nearly unreadable as a really able writer......

L'art.*

IT is to be regretted that the Royal Academy did not think fit to send a representative of England to the Rubens tercentenary * Art, Revue Hebdomadaire Jilusfre. Troisreme......

The Native Literature Of Bohemia In The Fourteenth...

G. H. Wratislaw, MA. (Bell and Sons.)—These interesting lecture; delivered at Oxford, on the lichester Foundation, will be read - with much pleasure. Mr. Wratislaw has both the......

Plain Words About Water. By Professor Church. (chapman...

It is enough," said Rasselas,—" you have convinced me that no man can be a poet." Professor Church's readers will be inclined to say to him, Yon have convinced us that no man......

Current Literature.

A Sussex Idyl. By Clementine Black. (S. Tinsley.)—There is always a certain interest in the story of how a man marries or loves be- neath him, though it is a subject which......