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The School Of Life. Seven Sermons By Late And Present

Head Masters. (Rivingtons.)—These discourses, addressed to "public- school men," and recommending the objects which the public-school missions, Toynbee Hall, and similar......

Modern English Sports. By Frederick Gale. (sampson Low...

Gale always writes pleasantly, and with a certain amount of knowledge, whatever the subject he may be engaged with; but it is evident that cricket is his forte. Cricket, it is......

Some Magazines.

THE Fortnightly cannot be reproached with want of political Catholicity. Its editor allows three writers—Mr. R. B. Brett, Mr. E. Dicey, and Mr. H. Labouchere—to state their......

Current Literature.

In the September and October numbers of the Scottish Church there have been some good literary papers, particularly an article in the one on "Victor Hugo," and in the other on......

The Flower Of Poem, And Other Stories. By M. Betham-edwards.

(Ward and Downey.)—The chief story in-this volume is of the melo- dramatic kind. The hero is an Irish patciot who seeks. to effect his country's liberation by dynamite ; the......