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There Is One Eminently Popular Paper In The New Number

of The Law Quarterly Review, — Mr. Edward Manson's "Scenes in Court from the Year Books." This shows how in the days of the Plantagenets, the King's Justices were in the habit......

Records Of Episcopal Travel.* 'the Book Before Us Is...

to mould to the reviewer's purposes. Sometimes it is full of observation and entertain- ment, sometimes of the suggestion of fuller work; then at times it rushes from place to......

Variety Rather Than Distinction Is The Note Of The January

number of Casseles Magazine. It is rather too soon to pronounce upon the serial stories, although they must be allowed to have a somewhat " thin " look, at the present moment.......

In Most Respects The January Number Of The Argosy (that

least variable of the magazines) may be regarded as an average one, the fiction in particular being of the usual excellent kind, and Mr. Charles W. Wood continuing his......

The Woman At Home, Otherwise "annie S. Swan's Magazine,"...

to have firmly established itself as an enjoyable mélange of letterpress and illustration, fact and fiction, cookery and dress, marriages and nursery chatter, specially......

Current Literature.

Good Words makes a very spirited start in 1894, with the first instalment of a new story by Mr. Baring-Gould, and several interesting miscellaneous articles, including " The......

Mrs. Oliphant's New Story, "sir Robert's Fortune," Is The...

of Atalanta at present ; it promises to be one of the best of her essentially Scotch novels,—and that is no slight praise. The January instalment is a good study in Northern......

From Being A Quarterly Magazine, The Investors' Review...

come a monthly, and, perhaps to signalise this new departure, its editor, Mr. A. J. Wilson, has published an article on "A Paralytic Bank of England." As this paper has caused a......