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Short Studies on Vita/ Subjects. By the Rev. P. W.

de Quette- vile, M.A. (Elliot Stock.)—These are best described in the words of their own preface : "It is the design of this volume to give a foremost place to those springs of ethical activity which consti- tute the rule of life, and whose impairment is succeeded by individual and national declension." It is probable that the papers have their own personal uses, but they do not require any special notice.