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Essays, Mock Essays, And Character - Sketches. (w....

pleasure of recognising, in notices of its annual volume, the great merits of the Journal of Education. We now have to welcome this volume, which contains a selection of the......

The Australian Church. By Edward Symonds. — The Church In...

Indies. By A. Caldecott, B.D. "Colonial Church Histories." (S.P.C.B.)—One hundred and ten years ago (January 20th, MS) Governor Philip with a colony of ten hundred and thirty......

William Dunbar. By Oliphant Smeaton. (oliphant, Anderson,...

that William Dunbar is admitted by all critics who have any right to be heard on such a subject as the comparative greatness of Scotch poets to stand next among them to Burns,......

The Actual Identity Of The Highwayman Being Unsuspected...

last. The detective work is of an inferior order, not such as we associate with Fergus Hume's pen. On the other hand, the lite rary qualities of the story are superior to some......

The Meaning Of Education. By Nicholas Murray Butler. (the...

Company, New York.)—Mr. Butler, the author of this book, is Professor of Philosophy and Education, and even a hasty glance at the essays and addresses which it contains shows......

Chambers's English Dictionary : Pronouncing, Explanatory,...

Davidson. (W. and R. Chambers. 12s. 6d.)—There is something of the encyclopaidie character about this dictionary. This, indeed, is necessary if such a work is to meet the......