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Early English And Scottish Poetry, 1250 - 1600. Selected...

a Critical Introduction and Notes, by H. Macaulay Fitzgibbon. (Walter Scott.)—Mr. Fitzgibbon gives some in- teresting information in his introduction, which furnishes a good......

Dying Scientifically. By "/esculapius Scalpel." (swan...

author of "St. Bernard's "gives in this book what he calls a " key " to his former book,—that is, he gives from medical journals proofs, as supplied by cases there recorded, of......

A Collation Of The Athos Coder Of The Shepherd Of

Hernias. By S. P. Lambros, Ph.D. Translated and edited by J. Armitage Robinson, MA. (Cambridge University Press.)—The history of the teat of the Shepherd is curious. The book......

Jubilee - Tide In Rome. By John George Cox. (burns And...

—Mr. Cox went to Rome as correspondent of the Tablet, at the jubilee of the Pope's priesthood (we hope that this is not too secular a way of expressing the object of his......

A Leal Lass. By Richard Ashe King ("basil "). 2

vols. (.Ward and Downey.)—This is a distinctly clever and certainly most entertaining novel. The " leal lass" is May Beresford, daughter of a country Vicar, who ekes out his......

Foreign Missions Of Protestant Churches. By J. Murray...

(Nisbet and Co.)—In this little volume Mr. Mitchell gives a sketch of what has been done in the field of missions, and what remains to do. On the whole, he is hopeful. He has......

The English Illustrated Magazine, 1887-1888.

This magazine keeps well up to its standard of excellence. In respect of the illustrations, the most important series of articles is Mr. W. Outram Tristram's "Coaching Days and......

Founder Of The Brahmo Somaj Was A Laborious Writer Who

defended pure theism, as he conceived it, as against polytheistic Hindooism and Christianity. His works have been suffered to fall into oblivion, from which it is now desired to......

Current Literature.

That enterprising monthly, the North American Review, threatens to become a receptacle for letters, instead of being a collection of articles,—certainly several of the papers in......