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Angelo : A Tragedy. By Victor Hugo. Translated Into English

blank verse by Ernest Oswald Coe. (D. Stott.)—Angelo is not one of M. Victor Hugo's finest efforts. It does not reach the height of dramatic power which he has elsewhere......

The London Quarterly Review. July. (wesleyan Conference...

article in this number is "A Liberal- Conservative Chinaman on Western Countries." This is an analysis, with copious extracts, of a very striking pamphlet, published a few years......

The Expositor. Volume Xi. (hodder And Stoughton.)—the...

in this volume is an essay by Professor Plumptrc on the " Author of Ecclesiastes,' " an essay which the writer describes as an " ideal biography." According to the theory here......

The Ancient Use Of Liturgical Colours. By C. C. Rolfe.

(Parker.) —The author's purpose is to show that the use of liturgical colours is primitive. This theory is opposed to the conclusions of the learned author of the Vestiarium......

The New Parliament, 1880. By William Saunders. (cassell...

Saunders discusses, from the Liberal point of view, what may be called the " ante-natal " history of the new Parliament. He begins with the Water Bill of the late Government,......

Current Literature.

The British Quarterly Review. July. (Hodder and Stoughton.)— This number is remarkably deficient in literary interest. Not one of the eight articles deals with any topic of the......

The Count Agenor De Gasparin. Translated From The French Of

Th. Borel. (Hodder and Stoughton.)—The Comte de Gasparin was well known in France as a writer on religious subjects, and on politics, especially on their ethical side. His own......

Thoughts On Eschatology. By The Rev. Henry Wynne Jones....

interesting sermon, written at the request and with the counsel of a very good man who has since passed "to the majority," and printed in memory of him, reviews the subject of......