15 JANUARY 1881, page 19

A. Fashionable Essayist.*

IT is always a mistake when people place their aims above their capabilities, and forget that others gauge their capabilities by their aims. This happens so frequently, that it......

A System, Of Figure Skating. Vandervell And Witham. 3rd...

1880. (Romeo Cox.)—In skating, as in overythiug oleo, some theoretical knowledge of the principles of the art must be obtained, before anything like satisfactory progress can be......

Current Literature.

The Brahmo Year-Book for 1880. Brief Records of Work and Life- in the Theistic Churches of India. Edited by Sophia Dobson Collet. (Williams and lcorgate.)—Miss Collet's new......