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Pictures from the Acts of the Holy Apostles. By the

Rev. H. J. Wilmot-Buxton. Illustrated by Wyndham Hughes. (Mowbray and Co., Oxford.)—Mr. Wilmot-Buxton gives a short account of each Apostle. St. Mark, St. Barnabas, St. Luke, and St. Paul are added to the eleven; while St. Philip and St. James, and SS. Simon and Jude, are put together, and thus the number of fourteen is made up. Scripture is used as far as it will go, and tradition and legend are used to supplement, -in some cases, its scanty. records. All this is done with discretion and good taste. The illustrations have a certain dignity and grace of the conventional kind ; but they want distinctiveness, a quality which, indeed, it would be very difficult to give.