Greece of the Elgin Marbles, of which Mr. Frederic Harrison lately wrote, is a great, if somewhat recondite joke. The prosperity of such lies, according to Shakspeare, in the ear of him that hears it. Mr. Harrison's jest has so far not been too prosperous. Another Visit to the Grande Chartreuse' is described, the visitor being in this case Mrs. Lecky. Miss Emily Lawless concludes her interesting Fragments of Irish Chronicles.' Prof. Huxley tilts once more against Mr. Gladstone and the Duke of Argyll, and Sir Benjamin Baker has a very edifying paper on Ship Railways.'-Very important is the contribution to the New Review of Sir Thomas H. Farrer on London's Water Supply.' 'Shakespeare's Ignorance,' by Herr E. O. von Lippmann, of Halle, conveys the very curious information that Bohemia, the sea coast of which Shakspeare depicts, means Apulia, for which this was an ancient name. 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