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Latin Lessons For Beginners. By A. R. S. Hallidie, M.a.

(Rivington, Percival, and Co.)—Mr. Hallidie's exercises seem well and judiciously constructed, and he does not fall into the error of taking his pupil too quick or too far. We......

Dictionary Of National Biography. Edited By Sidney Lee....

Paston—Percy. (Smith, Elder, & Co.) —The chief families which appear in this volume are Paston (the writers of the famous "Parton Letters "), Paulet (Marquis of Winchester),......

A Manual Of Drill And Physical Exercises. By Charles Oxley.

(Blackie and Son.)—This book, intended for schools, sufficiently indicates its purpose by its title. Preliminary drill and marching, free exercises, Swedish exercises,......

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Latin Prose In The Silver Age. Edited By C. E.

Brownrigg, M.A. With an Introduction by T. H. Warren, M A. (Blackie and Son.)—This is a selection from writers reaching over a period of about one hundred and sixty years (14 A......

Platonis Ion Et Hippies Minor. Edited By George Smith, Ma

(Rivington, Percival and Co.)—Mr. Smith is putting the case a little too strongly when he says that "in all literature there is no one who is less known to us as a man than......

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Letters Written By Sir Samuel Hood, 1781 83. Edited By

David Hannay. (Navy Records Society.)-These letters and the docu- ments which illustrate them (letters from other officers, &c., and extracts from log-books) relate to the naval......

A Popular Handbook Of The Microscope. By Lewis Wright....

improvement in microscopes in regard to the accessories of illumination and the mechanical part of the in- strument progresses fast. Arrangements that a few years ago were......

The Iliad Of Homer, I. Ail Edited By Walter Leaf,

Litt.D., and M. A. Bayfield. (Macmillan and Co.)—Mr. Hayfield has adapted to school purposes, altering and supplementing as his experience in education bast suggested, the......

We Have To Acknowledge Two New Parts Of The New

English Dictionary, edited by Dr. James G. H. Murray (Clarendon Press). Two volumes, III. and IV., are now in progress. In the former, under Dr. Murray's immediate......