14 JUNE 1879, page 24

Religious Strife In British History. By The Hon. Albert...

(Smith, Elder, and Co.)—The author desires apparently to illustrate the truth of Christ's words, "I came not to send peace, but a sword," from the history of our own country,......

Prised To Read This Heading As The Present Writer Was

when, coming to the end of the volume, be found that Mr. Russell, of whom he knew only by general report, is alive. Writing memoirs of the living is a practice not exactly......

Matthew Davenport Hill*

COLERIDGE, in planning the arrangement of the Eacyclopcedia Metropolitana, proposed that the part allotted to history should be written in the form of biographies of the great......

Periodical Is An Enterprise Which Ought To Be Known To

every man of science, if not to every man of business and letters. Dr. Hildebrandt undertakes to compile every month a complete consolidated index to or fifty of the principal......

Current Literature.

Aunt Judy's Magazine.—May and June Numbers. (George Bell and Sons.)—These are particularly interesting numbers. We are unable to criticise the nautical details and phraseology......