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Lilian Gray. A Poem. By Cecil Home. (smith, Elder, And

Co.).— A poem which bears the same relation to Tennyson's English idylls that the "Bridal of Triermain " boars to the "Lay of the Last Minstrel." It is what " Trierrnain " was......

The City At.night, And Other Poems. By B. Williams -...

(Murray and Co.)—This is a 'bOok which it is'very difficult to criticize, for the author in a very modest and well-written preface insists on NA earnestness with which he has......

Evenings On The Thames. By Kenelm Henry Digby. 2 Vols.

Second edition. (Longman and Co).—Serene hours and what they require are the theme Mr. Digby undertakes to treat, and if all the conditions he enumerates are really requisite,......

Current Literature.

A Latin - English Dictionary. Abridged from the larger work of White and Riddle.. By the Bev. John White, M.A., of Corpus Christi College, Oxford. (Longman and Co.)--Though......

Ephemera. By Lord Lyttelton, (john Marray.)—a....

pamphlets, lectures, and letters, many of which have been published before. Such volumes do not seem to deserve much favour, but Lord Lyttelton has at least the courage to......

A German Catholic On Rome.*

THE writer of this little volume of letters was a kindly genial Tyrolese priest, the native freshness of whose pleasant mind remained to the last unwarped by any infection of......