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Urbana Scripta. By Arthur Galton. (elliot Stock.)—mr....

honest, painstaking effort to criticise the poetry of the day. He is not a partisan, but is nullius addictus jurare in verbs magistri ; he can praise or blame, as the occasion......

The Spanish Armada, 1538. With Historical Introduction By T.

C. Noble. (A. R. Smith.)—Mr. Noble gives in his introduction some interesting facts about the Armada. It consisted of 166 ships, with 27,128 soldiers, marines, &c., and 180......

Current Literature.

Thirty Sermons for Children, delivered in the Parish Church, Watton, Herts. By the Rev. George Litting, M.A., LL.B. (R. D. Dickinson.)—These are very simple and vigorous sermons......

The Olive-leaf. By Hugh Macmillan, D.d....

Macmillan's are happy specimens of the illustration of spiritual truths from facts of Nature. The preacher is a careful and well-instructed observer, and he exercises a very......

Betty's Visions.• M.r.s. Oliphant's Marked Success In...

a thread of the preternatural or supernatural in them may have stimu- lated Miss Broughton to the efforts which produced this tiny volume. If so, she has no reason to feel......