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Current Literature.

G IFT-BOOKS. Icelandic Pictures Drawn with Pen and Pencil. By Frederic W. W. Howell. (Religious Tract Soeiety.)—This is a capital volume in a series which has never failed to......

The Bride's Home. By Emma Marshall, (nisbet And Co.)— This

is a story of a bride who comes from an elegant home to an old place where everything seems to be antiquated and dull, But the elegant home has been kept up on false pretences,......

The Handwriting Of The Kings And Queens Of England. By

W. J. Hardy. (Religious Tract Society.)—This is a volume of curious and varied interest, of which, however, it is difficult to give our readers any adequate idea with the means......

Mr. Ritchie's "darwin And Hegel."* The Present Volume...

a series of nine papers on philosophical subjects, reprinted from Mittel and other periodicals. They deal with a variety of topics, among which political economy (evidently a......