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has attended the publication of a translation of a portion

of Zschokke's Stunden der Andacht, under the direct patronage of Her Majesty the Queen, has, we presume, suggested the idea that the public might possibly receive with favour a further instalment of the same voluminous work. "The royal volume," we are told by the translator of that which is now before us, "being confined to Death and Eternity,' needs its antecedent ;" and the present work, which deals with "Truth, Duty, and Hope in their Christian aspects, bearings, and issues," is designed to supply this deficiency. We confess to feeling some misgivings as to whether Zschokke's somewhat cloudy meditations will, when not directly -supported by royal patronage, succeed in commending themselves very 'extensively to the favour of the British public.