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Fiction;

THE PHILOSOPHER'S STONE. The Philosopher's Stone. By J. /Wier Larsen. (Gyldendal. 75. 6d.) RELIGION has given a theme to many great novels, The Brothers Karamazov among them.......

The Epistle To The Hebrews. By James Moffatt, D.d....

: T. and. T. Clark. 12s.) This fine specimen of Scottish scholarship, which appears in the International Critical Commentary, and is appropriately dedicated to the memory of A.......

Shorter Notices.

REVOLUTIONARY NEW ENGLAND, 1691-1776. By James Truslow Adams. (Boston : Atlantic Monthly Press, $5.00.) If Anglo-American friendship depended on historians' views of events more......

" It Is A Well-known Fact," Wrote Lord Clarendon, "that The

Times. forms _or guides or reflects-. . the-public opinion of England." Knowing the standards of Delane and Reeve one might judge e. that public opinion in the 'fifties should......

Other Novels.—new Friends In Old Chester. By Margaret...

Murray. 7s. 6d.)—Lovers of Mrs. Deland's graceful and attractive writing will hardly need a finger-post to her new volume. It contains three stories long enough for the......