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The Ages Before Moses. By J. M. Gibson, D.d. (w.

Oliphant, Edinburgh ; Hamilton and Co., London.)—The leading thought of this volume, made up of lectures delivered by the author at Chicago, is the extreme value of the......

Current Literature.

The Nineteenth Century. By Robert Mackenzie. (Nelson and Sons.)—This, on the whole, is a very creditable piece of work. h is a summary, in 460 pages, of the history of the......

Chili : Sketches Of Chili And The Chilians During The

War. By R. Nelson Boyd. (W. H. Allen.)—There is abundance of practical in- formation in this volume, though it does not tell us anything but what we had already heard about the......

The Folk-lore Of Scotland.*

MODE RN tendencies are far from favourable to folk-lore.. Railways, telegraphs, and educational influences of many kinds are doing not a little to chase away the easy credulity......