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Bo,ton Monday Lectures, In Scepticism, Biology,...

Joseph Cook. Second Series. (Dickinson.)—As another volume of Mr. Cook's lectures has been lately reviewed in the Spectator, it is only necessary to indicate hero some salient......

The First Violin. (bentley And Son.)—this Is A Story...

a good deal of interest. We should say it is the work of a beginner, for the construction of the story is faulty ; but for all that, the book is above the average, and on the......

Echoes Of The Prayer-book In Wesley's Hymns. By George...

ton, B.A. (W. W. Gardner.)—It is generally known that many of our best hymns were written by the Wesleys, and especially by Charles Wesley. Few, however, are aware how numerous......

Annals Of The Early Friends, By Frances Anne Budge. (s.

Harris and Co.)—The "Society of Friends," one of the most remarkable phenomena in the history.of the English people, has met with a very scant recognition in English literature.......

Current Literature.

CHRISTMAS BOOKS, Ere. Job Singleton's Heir, and other Stories, by Emma Marshall (Seeleys), contains three well-written and interesting little stories, of which the second,......

The Dramatic Works Of G. E. Lessing. Translated From The

German. Edited by E. Bell, M.A. (George Bell and Sons.)—This book is the first volume of a series, which, as stated in the preface, will include the most popular of Lessing's......