second _seven_ years an agreeable companion; but for the last seven years he was a tyrannical master." This duality of epigrams seems to show a discrepancy somewhere; or are we to believe that the wits of the Regency used to drive their jokes as hired hacks, like the livery carriages employed by faded dowagers in Hampton Court? The rest of the little book is perhaps free from duplicates. It is a good one to turn over for an hour in the cars, which is perhaps all it claims to be. The anecdotes are good old familiar anecdotes, but it is pleasant to have them strung on a thread. We are reminded that the original Bride of Lammermoor was a Miss Dalrymple; that the "laughing Tom" of Thackeray's "Ballad of Bouillabaise" was Thomas Frazer, Paris correspondent of the _Morning Chronicle_; that the dramatist of _Nicholas Nickleby_, so savagely assaulted by Dickens in the course of the work, was a Mr. Moncrief, who would never have prepared the story for the stage if Dickens had intimated his objection. _Books Received._ The American Educational Annual: A Reference Book for all matters pertaining to Education. Vol. I., 1875. New York: J.W. Schermerhorn & Co. The Song-Fountain: A Vocal Music-book. By Wm. Tillinghast & D.P. Horton. New York: J.W. Schermerhorn & Co. My. Sister Jennie: A Novel. By George Sand. Translated by T.S. Crocker. Boston: Roberts Brothers. Democracy and Monarchy in France. By Charles Kendall Adams. New York: Henry Holt & Co. Egypt and Iceland in the year 1874. By Bayard Taylor. New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons. Elements of Geometry. By W.H.H. Phillips, Ph. D. New York: J.W. Schermerhorn & Co. The Old Woman who Lived in a Shoe. By Amanda M. Duglas. Boston: William F. Gill & Co. The Lily and the Cross: A Tale of Acadia. By Prof. James De Mille. Boston: Lee & Shepard. Alleged Discrepancies of the Bible. By John W. Haley, M.A. Andover: Warren F. Draper. History of the United States. By George Bancroft. Vol. X. Boston: Little, Brown & Co. Roddy's Romance. By Helen Kendrick Johnson. New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons. My Life on the Plains. By Gen. G.A. Custer, U.S.A. New York: Sheldon & Co. American Wild-Fowl Shooting. By Joseph W. Long. New York: J.B. Ford & Co. Hazel-Blossoms. By John Greenleaf Whittier. Boston: James R. Osgood & Co. Losing to Win: A Novel. By Theodore Davies. New York: Sheldon & Co. Linley Rochford: A Novel. By Justin McCarthy. New York: Sheldon & Co. A First Book in German. By Dr. Emil Otto. New York: Henry Holt & Co. What of the Churches and Clergy? Springfield, Mass: D.E. Fisk & Co. End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Vol. XV., No. 85. January, 1875., by Various