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A Darn On A Blue Stocking. By G. G. Chatterton.

(Bellairs and Co.)—Valencia Arbuthnot, seeking to set up for herself as a painter of portraits, makes acquaintance with a literary man who lodges in the same house. They fall in......

The Years That The Locust Hath Eaten. By Annie C.

Holds- worth. (Heinemann.)—There is surely interest enough of the tragical sort in the main situation on which Miss Holdsworth has constructed her tale, without the episode of......

Marsh. Leaves. By P. H. Emerson. (d. Nutt.)—these...

life, human and other, in the marshes are evidently the work of a man who has closely observed the creatures about which he writes. His style is, in our judgment, ambitious and......

The Bible And The Ancient Manuscripts. By Frederic G....

(Eyre and Spottiswoode.)—Mr. Kenyon has given us in this volume exactly what many readers of the Bible have long been wanting,—a plain, intelligible account, brought home to the......

History Of The Parish Of Whitchurch. By The Rev. John

Slatter, M.A. (Elliot Stock.)—The " Whitchurch" of which Mr. Slatter tells the story is that one of the eleven parishes of the name which is, perhaps, the best known, by sight......

Present - Day Tracts. By Various Writers. Vol. Xiii....

of the six "Tracts" included in this volume concern the "Truth of the Bible," a fifth discusses the "Doctrine of Heredity in its Relation to the Christian Sense of Daty,".the......

Curious Church Gleanings. Edited By William Andrews. (w.

Andrews, Hull.)—Mr. Andrews has followed up with the volume before us an earlier collection of papers, under the title of "Curious Church Customs." The introductory paper is......

Moves On Towards The Completion Of His Task At The

same leisurely pace and in the same discursive fashion that have become habitual to him. He regrets that he has " not been able to complete the work in three volumes." There......

The Permanent Ifissagx Of The Exodus. By The R3 1 1. John

Smith, D.D. (Hodder and Stoughton.)—Dr. Smith in his preface states the results of a close examination of the Mosaic nar- rative, begun after a visit to Egypt, and afterwards......

A Ruler Of Incl. By P. Thorold Dickson And Mary

L. Pechell. (Digby and Long.)—We are not quite certain whether the very unsatisfactory Commissioner Travers, who is dismissed for corrup- tion, or Captain Holt, is meant for the......

An Introduction To The Articles Of The Church Of England.

By the Rev. G. F. Machar, D.D., and the Rev. W. W. Williams, M.A. (Macmillan and Co.)—Dr. Machar takes a moderate and reason- able view of the Articles. They were intended to be......