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Major-general A. W. Drayson, To Whom Whist-players...

much, has given us a neat little volume in Intellectual Whist (Routledge and Sons, 3s_ 6d.) General Drayson, who, by the way, would prefer whist to be played without money......

Early Yorkshire Schools. By Arthur Francis Leach. Vol. I....

Archaeological Society.)—This volume, edited by Mr. Leach for the Yorkshire Archaeological Society, gives us some light on a dark subject,—education in pre-Reformation days. An......

Nature Pictures By American Poets. Selected And Edited By...

Russell Marble, A.M. (Macmillan and Co. 5s.)—Miss Marble has laid under contribution about forty-five poets, from W. C. Bryant (1794-1878) down to Mr. P. H. Savage, who died......

The Madeira Islands. By Anthony J. Drexel Biddle. 2 Vols.

(Hurst and Blackett.)—Mr. Biddle relates the history of Madeira and describes the island, giving also an account of the manners and customs of the natives, and of the advantages......

Crass Awn Scmool Booes.-the Clarendon Press Is Publishing...

Classicorum Bibliotheca Oxoniensis," which is, according to the prospectus, to contain twenty-seven volumes. They are to be accompanied by foot-notes, critical only. Three......