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Novels And Tales.—beggar My Neighbour. By E. D. Gerard. 3

vols. (Blackwood and Sons.)—The opening scene introduces to us three boys, sons of a Polish noble, who are playing at cards for an old silver watch. It is the fortunes of these......

The Wordsworth Society's Publications.* Mese Two...

the Wordsworth Society, whether its life be long or short, has something real to do. Indeed, Mr. Knight's paper on the successive editions of Wordsworth's works published in......

Educational Theories. By Oscar Browning, M.a. (regan...

Co.)—We need hardly say that the whole of this book, which is only too short for the magnitude and the number of the topics of which it treats, is well worth reading. Mr.......

A Son Of Belial : Autobiographical Sketches. By Nitram...

(Trfibner and Co.)—Very transparent pseudonyms affect only to veil the writer and the places about which he writes. His book is a sort of apologia pro vita sue. He tells us how......

Current Literature.

Goethe's lphigenie in Tauris. Edited by Dr. Bachheim. (Clarendon Press.)—Dr. Buchheim deserves much credit for this careful edition of one of Goethe's masterpieces. In the......