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Latter-day Teachers. By R. A. Armstrong, B.a. (c. Kogan Paul

and Co.)—In these six lectures Mr. Armstrong gives some vigorous sketches of certain phases of theological thought. They would have been all the better, if a certain rhetorical......

Current Literature.

Four-handed Chess. By G. H. Verney. (Routledge.)—One of the papers complained lately that now that the days were getting short, and the nights long, we should have a dull spell......

The World Behind The Scenes. By Percy Fitzgerald. (ghetto...

Winclus.)—This book is a bad specimen of a bad class. Of late years the reaction from an unjust prejudice has produced an undiscrimi- nating worship of things theatrical. From......

Introduction To The Study Of English History. By Samuel R.

Gardiner and J. Bass Mullinger. (C. Kogan Paul and Co.)—Dr. Gardiner and Mr. Mullinger divide their introduction into two parts, both likely to be of great use to lovers of......

Under The Sunset.* How Much Do Children Understand Of The

fanciful and often beautiful books that are written for their delectation at the present time? To what extent do they appreciate them ? These are questions which our own......