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History Of The Catholic Church Of Jesus Christ, From The

Death of St. John to the Middle of the Second Century. By Thomas W. Moss- man, B.A. (Longmans.)—Mr. Mossman's book is rather an essay on the Church of the Apostolic Fathers than......

Wandering Fires. By Mrs. M. C. Despard. 8 Vols. (samuel

Tinsley.) —This is the second three-volume novel that Mrs. Despard has pro- dneed this year. It has already been on our shelves for some time, so that the world need not despair......

Original Poems. By " Olive." Edited By R. Jasper More....

kin, Marshall. and Co.)—These verses are more meritorious than the ordinary run of "poems" published by request, or for a bazaar—the original intention, in this case—but the......

Elvira, Lady Casterton : A Novel. By M. S. Schwartz.

Translated from the Swedish by Annie Wood. (Richard Bentley and Son.)—Since Frederika Bremer's novels were translated into English, we have had but little acquaintance with......

Music And Moonlight. By Arthur O'sbaughnessy. (chatto And...

second volume will hardly win the commendations which his first volume seems to have received from critics of some authority. Certain powers are conspicuously present, notably......