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CURRENT LITERATURE.

Bogatsky's Golden Treasury. Edited by Charles P. Phinn, B.A. (Elliot Stock.)—This is an interesting edition of a book of devo- tion which was at one time a great favourite, and which still retains a place in many households. We have here "a reprint of John Thornton's edition of 1775, together with critical notes, hitherto unpublished, by John Berridge." The notes of both commentators are often vigorous and racy, though sometimes a little hard,—witness that on the extract for March 1st, from a writer named Howe. It seems devout enough, but Mr. Thornton stigmatises it as the work "of a heathen philosopher."