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Title: Review of reviews and world's work
Year: 1890 (1890s)
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Publisher: New York Review of Reviews Corp
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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hersedition are Persuasion $ and Northanger Abbey, §each in a single volume. This beautiful set, comprising adozen or more volumes, would make a most delectablepresent. In the Messrs. Macmillans new edition of Dickensworks, reprinted from the first edition, we have now tonotice Dombey and Son;; and Barnaby Rudge.!As the successive volumes appear we are continually more * The Hoosier Schoolmaster : a Novel. By Edward Eggle-ston. 12mo, pp. 285. New York : Orange Judd Companv.$1.50, t Don Orsino. By F. Marion Crawford. 12mo, pp. 448. NewYork : MacmHlan & Co. $1. X Persuasion. By Jane Austen. 16mo, pp. 328. Boston:Roberts Brothers. $1.25. § Northanger Abbey. By Jane Austen. 16mo, pp. 308. Bos-ton : Roberts Brothers. $1.25. II Dombey and Son. By Charles Dickens. A reprint of thefirst edition. 12mo, pp. 859. New York : Macmillan & Co. $1. \ Barnaby Rudge. By Charles Dickens. A reprint of thefirst edition. 12mo, pp. 618. New York : Macmillan & Co. $1. 632 THE REVIEW OF REVIEWS.
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DR. EDWARD EGGLESTON. impressed by the value of the biographical and biblio-graphical introductions supplied to this edition by Mr.Charles Dickens, Jr. The republication of the originalillustrations, of course, lends an added charm to thesehandsome and serviceably made volumes. ILLUSTRATED HOLIDAY BOOKS FOR CHILDREN. Much the handsomest juvenile book that has come to ourtable this year is Messrs. Houghton, Mifilin & Co.s beau-tiful new edition of Hawthornes Wonder Book for Girlsand Boys, * with sixty designs by Walter Crane, many ofthem printed in several colors. Hawthornes preface,written in 1S51, explained the plan as follows : Theauthor has long been of opinion that many of the classicalmyths were capable of being rendered into very capitalreading for children. In the little volume here offered tothe public ho has worked up half a dozen of them with thisend in view. A great freedom of treatment was necessaryto his plan, but it will be observed by every one whoattempts to render

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