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Some Books Of The Week.

[Under This heading its nctice such Books of the week as hare not been reserved for rainy in other fcrins.] Phonetic Spelling : a Proposed Universal Alphabet for the Rendering......

The Swashbuckler. By Mrs. Bailie Reynolds. (mills And...

stories are mostly of a kind which it is impossible to describe by anything but the word which Stevenson annexed from Scott—" tushery." But Mrs. Bailie Reynolds's tushery......

Readable Novels.—the Transformation Of Timothy. By Thomas...

Boon. 6s.)—An amusing story of the struggles of a mother and daughter who are compelled by loss of money to keep a lodging-house in London. The situation is much complicated by......

Fiction.

WOMEN OF THE COUNTRY.* THE few character-studies of hard-working and poor English- women which make up this short book are of such remarkable quality that we find ourselves......