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Current Literature.

The Missionary Year-Book for 1889 (Religious Tract Society), which gives the history and statistics of the principal Protestant missionary societies of the Old and New Worlds,......

Some Urgent Questions Of The Day. Edited By The Rev.

Harry Jones. (Rivingtons.)—Mr. Jones invited a number of clergymen of various schools of thought to give Sunday afternoon lectures in a London church. Freedom of choice in their......

Yankee Girls In Zululand. By Louise Vesceline Sheldon....

Co.)—The term "Zululand," as it is used in this volume, must be understood with considerable latitude. It in- cludes a considerable portion of Cape Colony . and the Orange Free......

Mr. Mccarthy's " Omar Khayyam."

IF this book were the work of a very young writer, we should forgive its affectations and conceits, in the belief that they only came of a mistaken but not unworthy desire to......