STRAWBERRIES.

British Queen.-Large, conical, pale red, firm, juicy, and rich. Early Prolific.-Large, flesh pure white, with a delicious pine flavour.

Elton Pine.-Large, ovate, bright shining crimson, flesh firm and briskly flavoured; a good kind for preserving.

Frogmore Late Pine.-Very large, conical, dark crimson, tender, juicy, and rich.

Keen's Seedling.—Large, ovate, dark crimson, firm, sweet, rich, and briskly flavoured.

President.-Very large, dark crimson, firm, brisk, juicy and rich; a heavy cropper.

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THE READER'S HANDBOOK

OF ALLUSIONS, REFERENCES, PLOTS, AND STORIES. By the Rev. E. COBHAM BREWER, LL.D.

The object of this Handbook is to supply readers and speakers with a lucid bur very brief account of such names as are used in allusions and references, whether by poets or prose writers-to furnish those who consult it with the plot of popular dramas, the story of epic poems, and the outline of well-known tales. Thus, it gives in a few lines the story of Homer's "Iliad" and "Odyssey," of Virgil's "Eneid," Lucan's "Pharsalia," and the "Thebaid" of Statius; of Dante's "Divine Comedy," Ariosto's "Orlando Furioso," and Tasso's "Jerusalem Delivered;" of Milton's "Paradise Lost" and "Paradise Regained;" of Thomson's "Seasons;" of Ossian's tales, the "Nibelungen Lied" of the German Minnesingers, the Romance of the Rose," the "Lusiad" of Camoens, the "Loves of Theagenes and Charicleia" by Heliodorus; with the several story poems of Chaucer, Gower, Piers Plowman, Hawes, Spenser, Drayton, Phineas Fletcher, Prior, Goldsmith, Campbell, Southey, Byron, Scott, Moore, Tennyson, Longfellow, and so on. Far from limiting its scope to poets, the Handbook tells, with similar brevity, the stories of our national fairy tales and romances, such novels as those by Charles Dickens," Vanity Fair" by Thackeray, the "Rasselas" of Johnson, Gulliver's Travels" by Swift, the "Sentimental Journey" by Sterne, "Don Quixote" and "Gil Blas," "Telemachus" by Fénélon, and " Undine" by De la Motte Fouqué. Great pains have been taken with the Arthurian stories, whether from Sir T. Mallory's collection or from the " Mabinogion," because Tennyson has brought them to the front in his "Idylls of the King;" and the number of dramatic plots sketched out is many hundreds. Another striking and interesting feature of the book is the revelation of the source from which dramatists and romancers have derived their stories, and the strange repetitions of historic incidents. In the Appendix are added two lists: the first contains the date and author of the several dramatic works set down; and the second, the date of the divers poems or novels given under their author's name.