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Elements Of Law Considered With Reference To Principles...

Jurivrudence. By William Markby. (Oxford : Clarendon Press.)— Students who are beginning to acquaint themselves with law will find this little book in many respects a clear and......

Erummacher : An Autobiography. Translated By Rev. M. G....

A.M. (T. and T. Clarke. Edinburgh. 1871.)—We do not know that this really valuable "life" has gained much by the very considerable additions supplied by the editor in this......

Insects At Home. By The Rev. J. G. Wood. (longmans.)—this

very handsome volume is one which we must content ourselves with describing rather than reviewing. It is, to borrow from the title-page, "a popular account of British insects,......

Crumbs Swept Up. By T. Delvitt Talmage. (hodder And...

Mr. Talmage is, we presume, a " minister " ; not that there is anything of a professional tone about what he writes, but that he is evidently at home in the topics of the......

Tregarthen Hall. By James Garland. 3 Vols....

charge which a critic has not uncommonly to bring against an author, but which he cannot justify by quotations,—we mean the charge of dullness. It would be possible, indeed, to......