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The Use Of The Apocrypha In The Christian Church. By

the Rev. W. Heaford llaubney. (C. J. Clay and Sons. 3s.)—Mr. Daubney says what can be urged on behalf of the liturgical and general use of the Apocrypha. There are plenty of......

Our Stolen Summer. By Mary Stuart Boyd. Illustrated By A.

S. Boyd. (W. Blackwood and Sons. 18s.)—The writer, by help of a ready pen and of the pencil of a skilful illustrator, has given us in this handsome volume a number of attractive......

Translations From Martial, Book I. By An Eton Master....

2s. 6d.)—Here we have translations, paraphrases, or adaptations of fifty epigrams, executed, in the first instance, for the benefit of the author's pupils, and now published......

A German Novel.

Moderne Propheten. By Ludwig Klausner. (Heinrich Minden, Dresden and Leipzig.)—This story, though heavily over- shadowed by a purpose, contains many dramatic situations and much......

Coutts And Co., Bankers. By Ralph Richardson, (elliot...

(kl.)—Mr. Richardson, having written the Life of a dis- reputable artist (George Morland), gives us, we understand from his preface, by way of compensation or contrast, the......

Some Books Of The Week.

[Under this heading we notice such Books of the week as hare not been reserved for review in other forms.] Politics and Administration. By Frank J. Goodknow. (Mac- millan and......

Foreign Missions Of The Church Of Scotland. By The Rev.

Robert W. Weir. (R. and R. Clark.)—The official niiisionary work of the Church of Scotland practically began in 1824, though there had been not a few previous individual efforts......