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Volumes Without Feeling A Profound Respect For The Man Whose

life and work they describe. Fears entertained, possibly offence given, in high quarters prevented Dr. Hook from rising to that eminence in the Church which he might have been......

The English Array. By Major Arthur Griffiths. (cassell...

—In this volume we have a sketch of the history of the Army, of the recent changes which have so altered its constitution, and of its pre- sent state. These sketches are......

On The Wolds. By Edward Gilliat, M.a. 3 Vole. (sampson

Low and Co.)—It would not be rash to conjecture that there is much in this story which has been drawn from life. Every one who knows anything of rural life in England among the......

South Africa And Its Mission Fields. By The Rev. J.

E. Carlyle. (Nisbet.)—This is an interesting account of the work which is being carried on by various Christian communities in South Africa, There is no part of the world in......

The Problem Of The Homeric Poems. By William D. Geddes,

LL.D. (Macmillan.)—It is almost needless to say that much interest and instruction will be found in the effort of a laborious and ingenious scholar to establish even an......