12 APRIL 1884, page 26

—we Have Received The Stranger's Story : An Episode Of

the Malvern Hills. Edited by Charles Grindrod. (Kegan Paul, Trench, and Co.)—The Story of St. Stephen, and other Poems. By John Collett. (Longmans.)—Religion in Europe : an......

—epigrams Of Art, Life, And Nature. By William Watson....

and Walmesley, Liverpool.)—Here there are Some really vigorous and sprightly things. We do not agree with all his judgments about men and things. It sounds very fine, for......

Porrity. — Romance Of Song. By William Reid. (d....

verses were the juvenile productions which Mr. Reid tells us in his preface some of them are, we might give him some en- couragement. Fluency and facility of a certain kind......

We Have Received The Official Year-book Of The Church Of

England. (S.P.C.K.)—Some of the statistics are peculiarly interesting. The number of deacons ordained in 1882 was 729, an increase of 26 on the year before, and of 147 on 1872.......

Magazines And Serial Peblications.—wo Have Received The...

April :—Part 1 of Artists at Home (Sampson Low and Co.), the biographical notices in which are by F. G. Stephens, and the full- page illustrations photographed by J. P. Mayall,......