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Verner's Pride.*

Mas. WOOD should write a play. In the present day, when men go to the theatre to see spectacle, and not the passions, to speculate on situations, and not on the development of......

The New Theology. By John Smart. (glasgow : David Bryce,

1863.)—The author of this little book was head master of an im- portant elementary school in Paisley, and it was originally written in the form of lectures delivered by him in......

Kingston's Annual For Boys. 1863. (sampson Low, Son, And...

The Nest Hunters. By William Dalton, author of "Will Adams," dre. (Hall and Co.) — A Chat with Boys on New Year's Eve. By Old Merry. (Jackson, Walford, and Hodder.)—These three......

The Lamps Of The Church. By The Rev. Henry Clissold,

MA., Author of "Last Hours of Eminent Christians," Ake. (Riving - tons.)— Mr. Clissold is no friend to railway novels. He is pained at the eight of "those countless works of......

The Dictionary Of Useful Knowledge. Two Vols. (eloulston...

—The object of this work is to "supply a history of persons and places, and an explanation of principles, copious enough to convey all essential information, but so concise as......

• Current Literature.

Beatrice Sforza ; or, the Progress of Truth. By William Brewer, M.D. Three vols. (Hurst and Blackett.)—This is a historical novel, in which the history considerably predominates......