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Ring, Or Knave? By The Author Of "hilda And I."

2 vols. (Chap- man and HalL)—This is not equal to the tales which wo have seen before from the same hand. The story of Godfrey Duncombe's ruin is, perhaps, not exaggerated. It......

Student Life At Harvard. (lockwood And Brooks, Boston,...

Hodder and Stoughton, London.)—This is very different from an Eng- lish story of University life. The difference strikes us at once. Here we should pronounce such an incident as......

The City Of Sunshine. By Alexander Allardyce. 3 Vole....

wood and Sons.)—Mr. Allardyce sets before us here a picture of life in Bengal, a picture in which all the personages represented, with the exception of Mr. Eversley, the......

The Select Dramatic Works Of Dryden. Edited By J. L.

Seton. (Hamilton, Adams, and Co.)—These select plays have been " selected" over and over again, till they have come to "All For Love," in which Dryden tells the story of Antcny......

The Theory Of Sound, In Its Relation To Music. By

Professor Pietro Blaserna. (Henry S. King and Co.)—That there are only three perfect instruments of music in the world is now ahnest universally acknow- ledged. But why the......

Animal Products. By P. L. Simmonds. (chapman And...

we believe, few works which treat of those animals from which com- mercial products are derived, and Mr. Simmonds, by preparing this de- scriptive guide to the collection in the......

Shoddy : A Yorkshire Tale Of Home. 3 Vols. By

Arthur Wood. (Tinsley Brothers.)—We have not yet got over, and with the dismal length of the great Tichbot ne trial in our remembrance, shall not easily get over, a prejudice......

All For Herself. By Shirley Smith. 3 Vole. (hurst And

Blackett.) —The incidents on which this story is founded strike us as being about as improbable as any that we have seen out of a burlesque. Cecilia, the heroine, contrives to......