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Man's Great Charter. By F. E. Coggin, M.A. (Nisbet.)—This "Exposition

of the First Chapter of Genesis" is an able book. Mr. Coggin is not satisfied with the popular conceptions of the meaning of the Mosaic Cosmogony, while he objects to the con- temptuous estimate which would class it with the corresponding narratives in other literature. Physical discoveries have disposed, he says, "of the trivial notions attached to the story ; " delivered from these, we can see what it teaches of the beneficent purposes of God, and the dignity of man.