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some fine illustrations, including "The Toilet of a Lady
of Ancient Egypt."

MR. C. A. WARD continues in the Bookworm (Stock)
his interesting Dr. Johnson's Tavern Resorts.' A sug-
gestion (p. 284) concerning dealing with some insect
book-pest seems worth consideration.

PART LVI. of Mr. Hamilton's Parodies is principally
occupied with Lord Macaulay's 'Lays,' 'The Devil's
Walk,' and the poems of Winthrop Mackworth Praed.

Raven sends some excellent Diversions of a Pedagogue.'
Jaques Tahureau,' the French poet, is the subject of a
paper by Mr. W. H. Hudson. Mr. Pater writes on
Gaston de Latour,' and Mr. H. D. Traill on 'Lucian.'-
Mr. A. M. Wakefield begins in Murray's a series of papers
on Foundation Stones of English Music. Capt. Shaw's
Protection of Dwelling Houses from Fire' is likely to
make the householder sufficiently uncomfortable. In a
Conning Tower' is a spirited account of an imaginary
naval combat. The Wilds of North Devon' and Public
Schools in the Olden Time' are both readable.-In 'The
Romance of History,' in Temple Bar, Part V. deals with
MR. SCOTT SURTEES has printed for private circulation
Benyowski. A Lapsed Copyright' concerns itself with
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t can scarcely be too large for the reader-of 'Coach- for the honours of Shakspeare is Sir Anthony Sherley.
ing Days and Coaching Ways' is given in the English We have received Part V. of the Cyclopædia of Educa-
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Grantham, and other places are delightful.
'A Hamp-matics,'
99 66 Middle-Class Schools," Object Lessons," &c.
shire Hamlet' is pleasantly illustrated by Mr. David
MR. SPRAGUE'S Handbook of Volapük (Trübner &
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son furnishes a good frontispiece. 'Pagodas, Aurioles,
and Umbrellas gives curious information.-In Longman's
Evolving the Camel,' by Mr. Grant Allen, Mr. Hudson's
'Sight in Savages,' and Mr. Nathan's 'Something about
Ostrich Feathers are noteworthy.-'Some Typographical
Errors' in the Cornhill supplies little that is not well
known, and gives as a typographical error an invention
"3 for " roses8.
of Tom Moore as to printing "noses
Arthur Schopenhauer is the subject of an essay, in
which a short and very characteristic paper, found after
his death, is quoted. Mammoth-Hunting in Siberia'
deals, of course, with the remains of the animal. Early
Travels in England' and 'Some Bits of Norman Lon-
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