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Church Designs For Congregations. By James Cubitt. (smith...

Cubitt deals with a difficulty which in these days of Church building has made itself very strongly felt,—the unfitness of the ordinary type of Gothic church, the nave with......

The Life Of Arthur Tappan. (sampson Low And Co.)—mr. Tappan,

was, as Mr. Newman Hall describes him in the preface of this volume,. the "consistent advocate throughout a long life of emancipation, tem- perance, education, sabbath......

The Piccadilly Annual. (j. C. Hotten.)—there Is No Need For

Mr. Rotten to hint an apology for the appearance of his new annual. If the authors or their representatives have received anything from Mr. Rotten for his republication of their......

Gurney's Handy Dictionary Of The Holy Bible. Edited By The

Rev. J. G. Wrench. (Tegg.)--This book was originally written nearly a century ago ; the present editor has sought to bring it up to the present state of Biblical criticism and......

Crrwksrs For Christmas. By E. Knatehimil-hugessem M.p....

gives us here a second volume of the same kind as was his "Stories for my Children," which we noticed at length last year. The best of the stories is, we think, " The History of......

Poems By Thomas Campbell. (griffin.)—the Rev. C. Rogers...

a memoir of Campbell to this edition of his poems, which con- tains also we see, a piece never before published. The day has gone by, if indeed it ever was, when a new or......

Walter Raleigh Sinjohn. By H. C. Ross-johnson....

fairly readable tale, with plenty of adventure in it and well written too, some slang phrases which here and there come in very inappropri- ately, excepted. But we must, take......