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Lectures On The Origin And Growth Of Religion, As...

by Celtic Heathendom. By John Rhys. (Williams and Norgate.)—It would be rude to pass by this learned book without notice. As for a review, that would be a task which is......

The Contents Of The March Number Of Atalanta Are Excellent

and varied. Among the miscellaneous articles, we note as excep- tionally good, Miss Mabel Robinson's "Children in Italian Sculp- ture." The serial fiction, contributed chiefly......

Mr. Charles W. Wood Is Conducting The Argosy Too Much

on the same lines as the late Mrs. Henry Wood. Could he not make some new departure, or introduce some fresh blood into the magazine ? In the March number, his own description......

We Have Received The Fourth Volume Of The Henry Irving

Shake- speare, edited by Henry Irving and Frank A. Marshall. (Blackie and Son.)—This volume contains King Henry V., The Merry Wives of Windsor, Much Ado about Nothing, As You......

Turning - Points In The Lives Of Eminent Christians. By...

Beck. (Hodder and Stoughton.)—Miss Beck does not always give us exactly what she promises ; indeed, often she has not the means of doing so. She gives a little sketch, for......

Current Litera.titre.

There are good things in the March number of the English. Illustrated Magazine, yet on the whole it has a dull and spiritless look. But for the papers on" Leeds" and "Kensington......

The Woman's World Steadily Improves, We Are Glad To Say.

There is nothing that is really weak in the March number, although Mr. Arthur Marvell's roundel might have been dispensed with, and Miss Ella Ciutis's short story of "10.30......

Indian Fairy - Tales. By Mark Thornhill....

he tells us, "collected," are really charming. The volume contains five long and five short stories, and some dozen or so morsels, so to speak, of folk-lore, as Mr. Thornhill......

The Workless, The Thriftless, And The Worthless. By...

(Isbister.)—Mr. Peek here republishes two articles which appeared in the Contemporary Review, and attracted at the time much atten- tion from those who had studied the difficult......

The March Number Of Scribner's Magazine Has The Air Of

solidity rather than of distinction. It is evident that Mr. R. Louis Stevenson's "The Master of Ballantrae " will be his most ambitious and most serious venture in the field of......

Mr. Scott Keltie Has At Last Brought The Statesman's...

(twenty-sixth annual publication) to such a pitch of perfection as regards arrangement, variety of contents, and accuracy in points of detail, that it can hardly be improved. We......

Seitora ; And Gray : An Oldhaven Romance. Same Author

and publisher.—Miss Wilcox, who describes herself as a "Counselor- at-Law "—(we hope that novel-writing is not as fatal to professional success across the Atlantic as it is......

St. John The Author Of The Fourth Gospel. By Howard

Heber Evans, B.A. (Nisbet and Co.)—We have not been able hitherto to agree with the speculations of Mr. Evans about the authorship of New Testament books. They seemed to us, to......

The Gospel Of St. Matthew In Sinkang - Formosan. Edited...

Edition of 1661, by Rev. W. Campbell. (Triibner and Co.)—This is an interesting record of a long-past work. About the middle of the seventeenth century, the Reformed Church of......