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Current Literature.

Historical Illustrations of the Old Testament. By the Rev. G. Rawlinson. (Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge.)—This is a handy volume, in which Professor Rawlinsou......

The Magazines.

THE Fortnightly for this month is full of valuable, though slightly heavy papers, of which the one most widely read will be Mr. Fawcett's attack on the present position of the......

The M - Orrices ; Or, The Doutitful Marriage. Dy G. T.

Lowth. 8 vols. (Hurst and Blaokott.)—Mr. Lowth's story might have been told without much difficulty, or the loss of any material part of the nine hundred odd pages which he has......

A. Bible Dictionary. Edited By The Bev. Charles Bolden, M.a.

(Moson.) — This is intended as a volume of what is called " The Haydn Series," to which belong " The Dictionary of Dates " and "The Dictionary of Biography," both of them very......