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TWELVE YEARS OF SOLDIERS LIFE IN
INDIA: Being extracts from the Letters of
the Late Major w s. R. Hodson, B. A. Edit
ed by his brother, Rev Geo. H. Hodson, NJ.
A Boston: Ticknor & Fields This we
regard as the best book on life and military ad-
venture in India that has appeared of late
Major Hodson went to India in 1915, subal-
tern officer, and we have in this volume
record of his adventures and observations,
from that time until the eleventh of March,
1888, when he was MORALLY wounded at Luck
now during an attack on the Begum's Palace.
lie was splendid officer, one of the ablest
and most efficient in the army AT the taking
of Delhi, he was one of the bravest and fore
most; and it was his fortune to capture the
king and his family. He prepared personal
narrative of the siege of Delhi, and of the
capture of the king and princes, which is
printed here.
The SECRET OUT: or, One Thousand
Tricks at Cards. and other Recreations. IL
Illustrated with over three hundred engravings.
By the author of '"The Sociable,'' &C., &c.
New York: Dick & Fitzgerald. In this book
we have explanations of all the tricks of the
conjurers. who astonish their audiences by
performing feats and tricks which the verdant
regard as very marvellous and it contains,
also, great variety of puzzles and other en-
tertainments of the kind For sale by S.
Thompson & Co.
THE MoNEY-KING AND OTHER POEMS
TaI n o
The 'Money-King" is a lecture in verse which
Mr. Sake had delivered with acceptance to
audiences in various parts of the country
and another of the pieces here printed en-
titled "The Press" was prepared for delivery
as lecture, and recited at Providence in 1856.
The shorter pieces are on various topics and
they are all in the usual style of Mr.. SAKE,
who cannot complain that his productions have
been moderated
FATHER CLEMENT, a Roman Catholic Story
has been published in Boston by John P. jew
EFT & Co. The same volume contains, also,
Profession is not Principle" and Decision"
They are all by Grace Kennedy. For sale by
Z. Mellen, Jr.
The RELIGIOUS MONTHLY MAGAZINE for
December is for sale by E. Mellen, Jr. 1t
contains quite the usual variety of well written
articles Among the contributors are Rev. j.
F.W. Ware, Rev. A. B Muzzy, and Professor
Huntington Rev E. H. Sears, one of the
editors, writes on the 'New Catholic Church"
in very earnest strain and those who would
understand the religious and the logical posi-
of IT,;4 l..
should read his article.
The STUDENT AND SCHooLMATE, and
Forresters Boys and Girls Magazine, pub
fshed in Boston by Robinson, Greene & Co.,
has much wholesome entertainment for the
juveniles. They publish also "The Intellec-
tual Multiplier," and handsomely prepared
blank book for exercises in composition,
The HoRTIoULTURIsT for December opens
with pictorial show of ten varieties of the
strawberry, executed with great accuracy.
They are mostly new varieties. This excellent
monthly is published in New York by c. M.
Saxton, Barker, & Co.
BLAcKwooD' MAGAZINE for November con-
tains good article on recent French books
concerning Mary Queen of Scots, a third num-
Der of Capt. Speke's travels in Central Africa,
a continuation of "The Luck of Ladysmede,"
and five other papers in the usual style of this
magazine. For sale by S. Thompson & Co.
The KNICKERBocKER MAGAZINE for De-
cember closes the forty'fourth volume of this
old and always excellent monthly. The pub
fishers promise in the next volume "a series of
articles on Popular Astronomy by the most dis
tinguished writer upon that science in the
land y and they offer copy of Firths picture,
"Merry Making in the Olden Time" to each
of their subscribers for 1860