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Paullina's Ambition. By Edis Searle. (seeleys.)—it...

change in the tone of thought when the heroine of a tale which belongs to the class commonly called " religious" is introduced to us just as she is returning from her first......

Expositions Of Christian Doctrine. By The Late Rev. John...

of Lindsay-Street Chapel, Dundee. (W. Kidd, Dundee.)—The friends of Mr. Wallace have done well in publishing this selection from the ser- mons which ho left behind him. The......

Current Literature.

CHRISTMAS BOOKS. Hector &wradac. By Jules Verne. Translated by Ellen C. Trower. (Sampson Low and Co.) Hector Sorvadac, captain in the army of Algiers, is transferred, together......

Fire Protection. By Eyre M. Shaw. (charles And Edwin...

—This work is, to the best of knowledge, the only thorough and scien- tific treatise on fires And fire-protection over published. It contains. full descriptions and drawings of......

Aristotle's Politics. Books I., Iii., Iv., Vii. With...

tion by W. E. Bolland, and Short Essays by A. Lang. (Longmans.)— We incline to think that this translation of an author much studied and peculiarly difficult, well and carefully......