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Travels In The Interior Of South Africa.. We Cannot Promise

the reader of Mr. Chapman's travels great novelty of scenery or incident, and, indeed, we must admit that in this, as in all books of the same kind, there will not be found that......

The Whole Period With Which This Book Deals Is Of

a distinctly mythical nature, though it is divided into portions of more or less probability, and they are honoured with names implying more or less certainty. But all is a mass......

Essays From " Good Words." By Henry Rogers....

in this volume are unequal, and while some are worthy of the ability of The Eclipse of Faith, others will not add to the author's reputa- tion. The dream on which the second......

Back On The Whole, The Affect Is Bewildering. All The

first volume is• taken up with the story of the Barnards and the Deerings, and that is more or less complete in itself. But with the second volume we plunge into the story of......

Of These Sermons Deal With Questions That Have Given Rise

to much con- troversy of late years, and are still working and fermenting amongst us. Purely theological quarrels they may seem, but they have not been left to theologians. The......

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Count Montalembert's Great Work Contain The History Of...

and St. Wilfrid, St. Cuthbert and the Venerable Bede, or rather of the gradual conversion of England by their means, and of the way in which Christianity and civilization were......

Abyssinia, Mythical And Historical. By Richard Chandler....

expedition was on its way to Abyssinia, Mr. Chandler seems to have gone to the British Museum. The results are before us. They have already appeared in a magazine.......

Current Literature.

Vittoria Colonna; Her Life and Poems. By Mrs. Henry Roscoe. (Macmillan.)—This sketch of Vittoria Colonna is elegantly and taste- fully written, and Mrs. Henry Roscoe has entered......