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How To Decorate Our Ceilings, Walls, And Floors. By M.

E. James. (George Bell and Sons.)—This useful and tasteful manual of instruc- tions has the merit of proposing " arrangements " which are within the reach of householders of......

Handbook Of The Tones Collection In The South Kensington...

(Chapman and Hall.)—This handbook is a perfect piece of work. It is thoroughly satisfactory, full, agreeably written, instructive without being pedantic, and as pleasant as a......

Dr. White Has Added To His Series Of "grammar-school Texts"

the Epodes and Carmen Seculare of Horace. (Longmans.)—The diffi- culties of the Epodes can scarcely be met in an adequate way by the vocabulary which Dr. White appends to his......

Snakes : Curiosities And Wonders Of Serpent Life. By...

C. Hopley. (Griffith and Farran.)—Miss Hopley gives us in her in- troduction an almost pathetic account of the difficulties which she encountered in inducing the publishers to......

Saint And Sybil. By Mrs. Pirkis. (hurst And...

improves ; she writes more carefully, and sees her people more plainly than she did at first. There are fewer violent delights in this novel, and consequently a less imperative......

Faithful To The End : The Story Of Emil Cook's

Life. Adapted from the French by Louise Seymour Houghton. (Hodder and • Stoughton.)—There is too much gush about this biography of a good, pious, and eminent man. It has the......

Rebecca ; Or, A Life's Mistake. By R. Dansey Green

Price- (Roworth and Co.)—This is a story of how a Welsh gentleman of blood and estate wooed and wedded a Welsh peasant girl, whose brother was a "Rebecca," and " wanted " for a......

This Work-a-lay World : Thoughts For Busy People. By B..

Wordsworth. (latchards.)—This sound, excellent little book—a reprint of short lectures to girls in factories and other centres of industry—is described by its author as "a......

Valentine: A Sketch. By E. C. Price. (chatto And Windus.)—

This is a remarkable story, with one great defect, which prevents it from taking the high place among recent works of fiction to which it would otherwise be entitled. This......

Current Literature.

Epics and Romances of the Middle A g es. Adapted from the work of Dr. W. Wagner by M. W. Macdowall, and edited by W. S. W. Anson. (Sonnenschein.)—Atnong the legends collected in......

Political Economy Examined And Explained. By Arthur M....

and Norgate.)—" The Free-trade theory is constructed upon an egoistic system for producing idleness, instead of being, like Protection, founded upon an altruistic system for......