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Of " Wisdom-literature." It Was Convenient, However, To...

book, as the subject, begun in Dr. Davison's "Praises of Israel" (dealing with the Psalms), is thus completed. Our author applies a very reasonable and moderate criticism to the......

Gossip Of The Caribbees. By William R. H. Trowbridge. (t.

Fisher Unwin.)—Of these " Sketches of Anglo-West-Indian Life," we may say that it would have been at least as well if they had never been written, and that, now they are......

Volumes, And We Have To Acknowledge The Receipt Of The

first, a handsome volume, which may be taken as an earnest of a really valuable work. Mr. Baring-Gould prefaces it with an in- troduction in which he sketches the history of......

Human Nature In Rural India. - By R. Carstairs....

Sons.)—This book contains the observations of a shrewd, practical man. He has had twenty years' experience in the Civil Service, and has evidently used his opportunities. He has......

Hymns And Their Stories. By " A. E. C." (s.p.c.k.)—this Is

a very carefully written and useful little volume, giving just the information that many will wish to have. Some knowledge of the writer adds an interest to a hymn, possibly in......

Holy Matrimony. By Oscar D. Watkins. (rivington,...

" Treatise on the Divine Laws of Marriage" is of an exhaustive fullness. The Scriptural authority, the -flews taken by the Eastern and Western Churches generally, and by first......

Thackeray : A Study. By Adolphus Alfred Jack....

cannot say that Mr. Jack gives us a high idea of his insight as a critic. The most difficult book to appreciate of all that Thackeray wrote is "Vanity Fair" ; and it is here......

The Flower Of Forgiveness. By Flora Annie Steel....

Co.)—These stories of Indian life are, for the most part, tinged with a sombre hue. Touching as they do, more or less directly, on the various relations between the ruling race......

Messrs. W. H. Allen And Co. Publish In A Cheaper

form Wellesley, by Colonel G. B. Malleson, a volume first published (about five years ago) in the " Statesmen Series."......

Theology. —the Psalms. By Alexander Maclaren, D.d....

volume belongs to the series of the " Expositor's Bible," and is the third and completing instal- ment of Dr. Maclaren's Exposition of the Psalms. It takes in Books IV. (90-106)......