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Literary Interpretation of Life. By W. H. Crawshaw, A.M. (Macmillan

and Co. 45. 6d.)—Professor Crawshaw publishes here, we presume, matter which he has given in the form of lectures. We must own that we find it better suited to oral delivery than to reading. It is ornate and eloquent ; we may say that it is suggestive, but it is somewhat vague. The critical is after all the one productive way of dealing with literature, and of the critical we have here but little.