PART XI. of Cassell's Gazetteer includes Cheddington to Clifton, and has a map of portions of South Wales.Part XLII. of the Storehouse of General Information carries the alphabet to "Seasons," and includes a biography of Sir Walter Scott. 'Hamlet and Don Quixote,' translated from Ivan Tour- Hamerton, an engraving of 'The Poet with the Mangénieff. It furnishes curious proof how representative is dolin' serving as frontispiece to the number. Lowell's the character of Hamlet that men are induced to compare Letters to Poe' have permanent interest. M. Octave or contrast it with nearly everything. Miss Barney gives Uzanne expounds his quaint and original views as to a not very pleasing picture of The American Sports-The End of Books.'-The English Illustrated reprowoman.' Dealing with the question of 'Where to Spend a duces a pleasing picture of the Queen at the age of Holiday, Lady Jeune recommends Berks, Mr. Arthur three. The Apron of Flowers,' after Herrick, is a very Symons the Quartier Latin, Paris, and the Rev. J. taking illustration. Mr. Lionel Cust has a capital article Verschoyle, Achill and Erris. We have not the slightest on Grinling Gibbons. The entire contents are excellent. objection, but would also suggest Tenby, Moscow, the Thomas Hughes comes forward from his solitude to North Cape, and Brook Green, A Visit to Corea' has speak, in Macmillan's, in favour of hero worship, and to more than temporary interest. Mr. Cobden-Sanderson tell Rugby boys concerning William Cotton Oswell. In writes on Bookbinding,' a subject on which he is entitled beginning an article, to be continued, on The Historical to speak. An excellent number of the Nineteenth Cen- Novel,' Mr. Saintsbury speaks humorously of Xenophon tury has a remarkable variety of contents. Behind the as the author of the first. An account, anonymous, of Scenes of Nature,' by Mr. Sinnett, which deals with the Mr. Secretary Thurloe is given, and there is a paper, astral plain, requires a kind of knowledge to which we put not, perhaps, very remarkable, on The Unconscious in no pretension, and is to us simply unintelligible. It is Humourist.-A very strange and eventful life is that interesting to learn that the coming century will pro- described in Temple Bar under the title A West-End bably know all about it. In connexion with this subject Physician.' The last fight in armour was fought, it it is edifying to read the assertion of Mr. Le Gallienne, seems, so late as 1799. An estimate of William Collins in his Death and Two Friends,' that if some one, Mr. appears. Records of an All-round Man' supplies much Edison or other, were to be the Columbus of the Unseen, pleasant gossip concerning Sir Richard Owen and his "it would soon be as overrun with gaping tourists as circle.-Dr. McPherson describes, in the Gentleman's, Switzerland, and within a year railway [?] companies Cloud, Fog, and Haze.' Mrs. Laura Alex. Smith gives would be advertising Bank holidays in Eternity.' Dr. some interesting English harvest songs.-Lady Verney W. H. Russell's A Part of a Ghost' tells a good ghost describes, in Longman's, from the Verney MSS., 'Á story, for the truth of which the writer may or may not be Physician of the Seventeenth Century,' who proves to understood to be pledged. In the Tarumensian Woods' be Dr. William Denton. Mr. Lang entertains his readers deals with the Jesuits in Paraguay. Mr. Whibley derides once more 'At the Sign of the Ship.' The general conwhat he calls The Farce of University Extension.' Dr. tents are excellent.-Mr. Payn's reminiscences, supplied Hugh Percy Dunn answers encouragingly in the negative to the Cornhill, remain most pleasant reading. the question, 'Is our Race Deteriorating?' Mr. W. Roberts writes on the prices obtained for some modern pictures. Mr. Swinburne translates the recently disCovered Delphic Hymn to Apollo.' In his paper on The Present Position of Egyptology,' Prof. Mahaffy urges the necessity of a further study of Coptic.-To the New Review Mr. W. S. Lilly sends In Praise of Hanging, a protest against modern humanitarianism as regards criminals. Mr. Hall Caine is disposed to assign great importance to The Novelist in Shakespeare. His words, first spoken at a Shakspeare birthday dinner, are ingenious and fervid, but do not always carry conviction. Mr. Atherley Jones deals at some length on The Grievances of Railway Passengers,' attributable principally to the exorbitant pretensions of the railway companies. Of two important expeditions to the North Pole, Mr. Herbert Ward attaches most importance to the English. A fourth instalment of 'Secrets from the Court of Spain' is not less stimulating than the previous portions. Lord Meath, dealing with The Possibilities of the Public Parks,' inspires some fear lest certain of his views should find acceptance, which would be a misfortune. Mrs. T. Sparrow gives a terrible picture of "The Women's Doss House.'-'Why and How the Great Dictionary was Made,' in the Century, deals not, as might be supposed, with the Oxford New Dictionary,' but with The Century Dictionary,' now completed and in the hands of the public. This, though interesting, is in part an advertisement, and is separated from the general contents, which begin with 'Washington as a Spectacle,' by Mr. F. Marion Crawford. This is well worth reading, and is profusely illustrated. Most of the designs are excellent, though many are needlessly nebulous. 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