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NOTICES OP BOOKS. 423
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Books Of The Monte. Few " The Stray Book...
" Birds drawn from Nature / ' by Mrs . Hugh Blackburn . Folio . £ C Selections from the Norse Tales / ' for the use of childrenbDr
Dasent , the -well-known scholar in Scandinavian lore . An , y extra . volume of Mayhew ' s " London Labor and London Poor / '
containing " those that will not work / ' by several contributors . ee The Poets and Prose "Writers of Francefrom the Earliest Period to the
, Beginning * of the Present Century ; with Biographical Notices , Explanatory Notes , Synoptical Tables , and a Copious Index , " by
Gustave Masson . " The Monthly Packet of Evening Readings for and Younger the " Members Monthly of Paper the Eng of lish Sunday Church Teaching / ' Vol , " . XXII under . _tlie ( Mozley same , )
editorship . " The English School of Painting in Water-colors ; its ' ninet Theory y-six and specimens Practice /' of —fort compound y-four studies tintsfort in y chromo p - ages -lithograp of descri hy - ,
tive texts , —by Aaron Pen ley . " Papers , for Thoughtful Girls p ; with illustrative Sketches of some Girls' Lives . " " Chrysal : a Story
with an End , " by Mrs . Broderip , illustrated by her brother , Thomas Hood . " Juliane LouiseElectress Palatineand her Times" b
Fanny Elizabeth Bunnett , . The Electress Palatine , was the grand , y - mother of the Electress Sophia , from whom the Engiish Sovereigns
of the House of Hanover are descended . * Virgil Solis' Drinking * CupsVasesEwersand Ornaments . " This book contains
twenty-, , , one fae-similes of extremely rare etchings , by Virgil Solis , a German engraver , born at Nuremberg , in the year 1514 . " Songs and
Ballads , " written and set to music by their Royal Highnesses Albert and Ernest . Folio . ( Bohn . )
A new French religious quarterly review has _Tbeen issued , entitled Le Huguenot" sold _Tby Morgan , Amen Corner .
Sampson Lowe publishes a useful book , " The Ladies' Reader- with some Plain and Simple Rules and Instructions for a good Sty , le of
Reading aloud , and a Variety of Selections for Exercise , " by George Vandenhoff . Bufc the great bulk of the advertisements refer to
Educational Literature of every kind , from the sixpenny primer to the solid dictionary or the valuable atlas , where every conceivable
variety _^ f demand for school or college or home instruction , must find itself anticipated .
Miss Faithfull has published during the month "Sights and : Stories ; being some Account of a Holiday Tour through the North
of Belgium , " by Amelia B . Edwards . It is a pretty book for young people , with illustrations by the clever author .
Also a sixpenny pamphlet on " Orthography , " by Mr . Scu & amore the text of which is the rule that the Civil Service Commissioners ,
require those who come before them for examination to spell correctly , and reject a large number of those whom they examine
for mistakes and deficiencies in spelling * . . The _aiopendix contains - certain wonderful " specimens of orthographical exercises set to
t candidates he Foreign Office clerkship . " The s and firs similar t sentence situations remarks in all that offices " the excep deth
Notices Op Books. 423
NOTICES OP BOOKS . 423
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Feb. 1, 1862, page 423, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01021862/page/63/
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