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Our New Zealand Cousins. By The Hon. James Inglis. (sampson

Low and Co.)—This compact little volume deserves a word of com- mendation, not because of any special originality in it, either in the way of research or of reflection, but......

Two Books Of Eastern Travel.* What A Pity It Is

that tourists who, in pursuit of business, or restful change, or pleasure, travel by the much-frequented sea- routes from the shores of England to Constantinople, or some other......

Current Literature.

The January number of the Scottish Review errs, perhaps, in being too national. It contains an article on "Scotland in Times Past," by the Lyon King-at-Arms, and which takes the......