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Modern Science Unlocking The Bible. (longmans.)—we Hope...

this strange book understands himself,—we, at lea.st, do not understand him. He does not unlock anything for us, and his title quite baffles us. We gather that he is an admirer......

The Ifi4ory Of Afghanistan. By Colonel G. B. Masson, C.s.i.

(W. H. Allen.)—It is not Colonel Malleson's fault that his subject has so little attraction for the reader. Not even the interest that is now roused by the Afghan war can invest......

Evolution, The Stone Book, And The Mosaic Record Of...

By Thomas Cooper. (Hodder and Stoughton.)—Mr. Cooper, who for many years has laboured to win over men, especially the working- class, to the side of Christian belief, always......

Foreign Classics For English Readers.—moliere. By Mrs....

Tarver, MA. (Blackwoods.)—What a pity, we think, first, - that any should be only "English" readers !—so true is the remark made in the introduction to this volume, that "the......

Current Literature.

The Two Voyages of the Pandora,' in 1875 and 1876. By Sir Allan Young, R.N.R. (Stanford.)—Sir Allan Young made his first voyage in the 'Pandora' with the hope of getting through......