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How To Write The History Of A Parish. By X.

Charles Cox. (Bem- rose.)—Mr. Cox has fully proved his competence as a guide in this matter, by his admirable "Notes on the Churches of Derbyshire," as well as in other ways.......

The Happy Valley : Sketches Of Kashmir And The Kashmirians.

By W. Wakefield, M.D. (Sampson Low and Co.)—Kashmir is not so familiar to English readers but that they will welcome Dr. Wakefield's volume. It contains nothing very striking or......

Valeria : A Story Of Venice. (richard Bentley.)—a Very Well

told story this of the Venetian struggle for independence in 1848. A young Piedmontese noble visits a Venetian family, to make acquaint. ance with his betrothed. He falls in......

We Give With Pleasure Our Customary Welcome To The Tenth

volume of the Expositor, edited by the Rev. Samuel Cox. (Hodder and Stoughton.)—The editor continues his analysis of the Book of Job, carrying it down to the end of the......

Sun, Moon, And Stars : A Book For Beginners. By

Agnes Giberne. With a Preface by the Rev. C. Pritchard. (Seeley.)—Professor Pritchard gives a hearty recommendation to this volume, a recom- mendation quite justified, we think,......

Current Literature.

The New Quarterly Magazine. January. (C. Began Paul and Co.) —This number contains many interesting articles, the most important of which is probably the review of " Italian......

Pulmonary Hcemorrhage : Its Causes And Results. By...

Thompson. (Smith, Elder, and Co.)—When we consider the enormous field for the study of chest diseases that the physicians of the Brompton Hospital are afforded, it becomes a......

Specimens Of Modern German Prose And Poetry, With Notes. By

Dr. M. M. Fischel. (Triibner.) —Dr. Fischel, who is known to many students of German as the author of a concise and useful German grammar and reading-book, has now published a......

Sam Remo And The Western Riviera, Climatically And...

By Arthur Hill Hassall, M.D. (Longmans.)—By the " Western Riviera" is meant the coast of the Mediterranean between Nice and Genoa. Any one meditating a visit to any part of the......

Contemporary Portraits. By E. De Pressense, D.d....

Harwood Holmden. (Hodder and Stoughton.)—The most interesting of these "portraits " are those in which the writer makes us acquainted with the internal history of French......

Meditations In The Tea-room. By " M. P."...

have a collection of thoughts, aphorisms, comments on men and things, showing a shrewd, somewhat cynical, spirit, often expressed with much vigour and point. We should think......