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Aids To Practical Geology. By Grenville A. G. Cole. (griffin

and Co.)—This is a thoroughly comprehensive manual of what we may call analytical geology, going in more for the microscopical, mineralogical, and chemical structure, as the......

Poems. By Christina G. Rossetti. (macmillan.)—this Is A...

edition of Miss Rossetti's poems. It will be welcome to many whose hearts were won long ago by " Goblin Market," and who have not ceased to admire the delicate fancy, the......

Elementary Biology. By T. Jeffery Parker. (macmillan And...

and certainly instructive text-book this. Analogies and comparisons are pointed out, and the reader is persuaded to be observant; and this is a step in the right direc- tion,......

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It Happened Yesterday. By Frederick Marshall. (blackwood...

an uncanny story of what may be called hypnotism. A German girl, of noble birth, but very poor, goes to live as companion to a French bourgeoise, who has inherited great wealth.......

The Iliad Of Homer. Translated Into English Prose By John

Purves, M.A. Edited, with Introduction, by Evelyn Abbott, M.A. (Percival and Co.)—Mr. Pnrves, a scholar of no little eminence, spent many years on this book, but did not live to......

Quite. By Cecil Dunstan. 2 Vols. (ward And Downey.)— The

best thing in Quits is the contrast which " Cecil Dunstan " draws between the unaffected girl who has imbibed the freedom and generosity of Colonial life, and her London......

A History Of Civilisation In Ancient India. By Romesh...

Dna. 3 vols. (Thacker, Spink, and Co., Calcutta )—Mr. Dutt devotes the first of his three volumes to what he calls the " Vedic and Epic Ages." The first includes the six......