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The Pulpit Commentary, Edited By The Very Rev. Dean Spence

and the Rev. S. Joseph Exell (Kegan Paul, Trench, and Co.), is nearing its end. In the present volume, we have the Epistles to the Thessalonians, the Pastoral Epistles, and the......

Elementary Chemistry. By M. M. Pattison-muir And C....

University Press.)—A small text-book, containing rather more than the usual number of equations and reactions, or " inter- actions," as the authors prefer to call them. The book......

Elementary Microscopical Manipulation. By T. Charters...

Trowley.)—Mr. White gives, in about a hun- dred pages, much sound advice as to the manipulation and mounting of microscopical objects, histological and otherwise. Many similar......

Practical Chemistry. By M. M. Pattison-mair And D....

University Press.)—A. companion volume to the "Ele- mentary Chemistry." This is a graduated course of practical chemistry, furnished also with numerous experiments and several......

Elements Of Chemistry. By Ira Remsen. (macmillan And...

Rernsen thinks that practical work should precede any introduction to theory. Certainly, chemistry is not taught on these principles by the majority of teachers ; besides, the......

Husband And Wife. By Marie Connor. 3 Vols. (f. V.

White.)— There never was a more unlucky piece of advice than that which suggested to novelists that they should begin their story with the marriage of their hero and heroine.......

Weather. By The Hon. R. Abercrombie. (kegan Paul, Trench,...

Co.)—The writer htia striven to place before the general reader the science of weather and weather-forecasting as determined chiefly by readings of the barometer displayed in......

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A Short History of the Irish People, down to the Date of the Plantation of Ulster. By the late A. G. Richey, Q.C. Edited, with Notes, by R. R. Kane, LL.D. (Hodges, Figgie, and......

We Have Received The Thirteenth Volume Of The Very Handsome

and complete reissue of a great English classic, John Dryclen's Works. (W. Paterson, Edinburgh.)—It is some time since we noticed the first volume of this edition, and some of......