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Churches And Their Creeds. By The Rev. Sir Philip Perring,

Bart. (Longman.)—We agree with the author when he says that the time is fast approaching "when the Church of England, if she is to retain her importance, not to say her......

Is The Heroine Of The Story; And She Is A

creature so delightful that she has not many equals in the realms of fiction. The awkward, half-grown girl, belonging to the small shopkeeping class, whom her neighbours......

Sister May. By The Author Of "margaret's Engagement." 3...

(Bentley.)—We should be glad to give Sister May higher praise than our conscience permits us to accord to it. It is certainly well written throughout, and shows great advance in......

The Practitioner. January. (macmillan.)—the Greater Part...

as the Practitioner does not come within the competence of a layman to discuss, but there is a strongly worded comment by the editor on the late manifesto about the medical use......

To Its Subject, "the Cockaynes " Themselves ; That Is

to say, Mr. Jerrold sketches "Mrs. Rowe's," an English boarding-house in Paris, with quiet humour, because, as we suppose, he is not striving to be very effective. He wishes to......