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Syrian Sunshine. By T. G. Appleton. (roberts Brothers,...

Appleton gives much more of his book to what he thought than to what he saw. The problems of belief, of revelation, of the relations between the Divine nature and man, occupied......

A Modern Mephistopheles. (sampson Low.)—the Idea Of This...

a sentence quoted from Nathaniel Hawthorne, which speaks of "the want of love and reverence for tho human soul, which makes a man pry into its mysterious depths, not with a hope......

The Evening And The Morning : A Narrative. (james...

" narrative " is an ingenious and not an unattractive representation of the advantages of Swedenborgianism. The narrator tells us how an old friend, George Gordon by name, whom......

Outlines Of Biblical Psychology. By J. T, Bock....

the German: (T. and T. Clarke, Edinburgh.)—The title of this book is rather obscure, so, too, are frequently the contents, which quite betoken a German original. A. Biblical......

Troubadours And Trouveres ; New And Old. By Harriet W.

Preston. (Roberts, Boston, U.S.)—Miss Preston is known to readers on both sides of the Atlantic for her admirable translation of " Mirbio," the great poem of Frdthirie Mistral,......

The Pleasures Of Bousebuilding. By J. Ford Mackenzie....

My aim," says the writer in his preface, "has been to carry the reader through the experiences and adventures of a couple of speculative amateurs, in their struggle to become......

The Epistle Of St. Barnabas. By The Rev. W. Cunningham.

(Mao- millan.)—In this little volume, which has been expanded from a Hulsean prize-essay, the author gives us a very interesting discussion on the data and authenticity of the......