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Socrates' Ecclesiastical History. The Greek Text, With...

W. Bright, D.D. (Oxford : Clarendon Press.)—The history of the period from the accession of Constantine in A.D. 306 to the year A.D. 439, in the reign of Theodosius II.,......

Songs Of A Worker. By Arthur O'shaughnessy. (chatto And...

poems included in this volume were written by Mr. O'Shaughnessy during the two years which preceded his early death, and the melancholy by which many of them are pervaded is, we......

Amid The Corn. The Christmas Party. The Whitsuntide...

the Author of "The Evening and the Morning." (James Speirs.)— These are two elegant-looking little volumes, appearing to be intended to amuse an idle half-hour ; but only open......

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......

The Life Of James Mursell Philipp°. By Edward B. Underhill,

LL.D. (Yates and Alexander.)—Mr. Philippe was a missionary, connected with the Baptist Missionary Society, in the island of Jamaica. His work there extended over more than fifty......

Fashions Of The Day In Medicine And Science. By H.

Strickland. (Ccnstable, Leng, and Co., Kingston-upon-Hull.)—This is a lively and amusing book, a clever book, in fact, though we must say that there is a good deal of......

What Is The Truth As To Everlasting Punishment ? By

the Rev. F. Nutcombe Oxenham, MA. (Rivingtons.)—This is an answer to Dr. Pusey's recently published treatise, "What is of Faith as to Ever- lasting Punishment ?" and, as an......

Dictionary Oy The English Church, Ancient And Modern....

and Darton.)—A. book, this, which besides containing much information, ecclesiastical and historical, is also of considerable prac- tical utility. The beat authorities have been......