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Land, And Spain Respectively. The First, Which Bears The...

" Unequally Yoked," is chiefly occupied with the sorrows of two young women who marry natives of Egypt. Miss Jane Whately, than whom there could scarcely be a better authority......

The Talmud. By Joseph Barclay, Ll.d. (john Murray.)—when...

Emmanuel Deutsch wrote his famous article on the Talmud, he dealt with a subject about which most educated people had but the very vaguest ideas. He naturally presented in a......

Miejour, Or The Land Of The Felibre. By Duncan Craig.

(Nisbet and Co.)—A winter spent in the South of France seems to have suggested this book to Mr. Craig. Along with descriptions of scenery, and notices of Cannes, Mentone, Nice,......

The Boy Colonists ; Or Eight Years Of Colonial Life

in Otago, New Zealand. (Simpkin and Marshall.)—This is evidently a picture drawn from life. It does not pretend to artistic character, or to literary excellence, except so far......

Thalassa. By John James Wild. (ward And Co.) —this Is

one of the works which embody some of the results of the expedition under- taken by H.M.S. ' Challenger.' We believe the popular notion of the deep-sea bottom is that it......

The Life That Now Is, And Nature And Life. By

Robert Collyer. (Simpkin and Marshall.)—This does not strike us as a very appro- priate title for this little volume of sermons, though Mr. Collyer in his preface implies that......

Pretty Polly; A Farce In Fyttes. By G. Manville Fenn.

(Tinsley Brothers.)—A "farce in fyttes " may be a happy idea, though it does not seem so to as ; but when there are forty-one " fyttes," and these fill about eight hundred......

Popular Defence Of The Jesuits. By Willis Nevins....

Norgate.)—" What a . base lie it is for Protestants," says Mr. Nevins, "to profess such a liberty of conscience, and to deny it to those whose ideas are different from their own......