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In The Templars' Trials, by J. Shallow (Stevens and Sons),

we have an attempt to clear up something at least of the mystery which surrounds the fall of the great Order of the Knights Templars.—History of Philosophy. Part I., " Pre-Scholastic Philo- sophy." Translated from the German of Dr. Albert Stockl, by T. A. Finlay. (M. H. Gill and Son, Dublin.)—Languages of the Cuneiform Inscriptions, by George Bertin (Trubner and Co.), one of the series of Trubner's "Collection of Simplified Grammars."