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Book-lore E A Magazine Devoted To Old-time Literature....

December, 1886—May, 1887. (Elliot Stook.)—So far as print, paper, and binding are concerned, this magazine excels, we imagine, all its contemporaries. The valve of its contents......

Chronicles Of The Coniston Family. By The Rev. E. G.

Charlee- worth. (Elliot Stook.)—There is very little to be said about this hook except that it is worth reading. It is evidently the work of one who knows what he M writing......

The Theory Of International Trade. By C. Francis...

(Hodges, Figgie, and Co., Dublin.)—Professor Beatable expounds in this volume what may be described as the scientific basis of the Free- trade system. Free-traders ought to be......

Home Education. By Charlotte M. Mason. (regan Pool,...

Co.)—This volume contains "a course of lectures to larlies,' , delivered at Bradford. The first six are devoted to "The Education of Children under Nine Years of Age," the......

Defoe's Captain Singleton. Edited, With Introduction And...

Halliday Sperling. (Walter Scott.)—The minor novels of Defoe, especially "Moll Flanders" and "Rosana," are too gross in incident, and too monotonous in the delineation of vice......