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A New Translation Of " Undine."* Something Of The...

of childhood and youth seems to come back to us with the new appearance of Undine, endowed this time, after the fashion of the present day, with an intro- Undine : a Romance.......

We Have Received Two Volumes Of The " Present-day Tracts"

Series. (Religious Tract Society.) —One deals with the subject of Non-Christian Philosophies of the Day. Eight tracts are included. Professor Blaikie writes on "Christianity and......

Current Literature.

The twenty-fifth annual issue of The Statesman's Year-Book, edited by J. Scott Keltie (Macmillan and Co.), appears earlier than it did last year, and, appropriately enough,......

This Title, Really Goes Beyond His Subject. The "plague Of

Books," for instance, is a discourse on a matter more important than any "amenities " of life, social or other. It concerns, in fact, the essence of life itself. Life may be......

The East Neuk Of Fife. By The Rev. Walter Wood,

M.A. (David Douglas, Edinburgh.)—This is the second edition—so enlarged and rearranged as to be practically a new work—of one of those excellent local histories that Scotland is......

The Dedications Of Books. By Henry B. Wheatley. (elliot...

Wheatley finds three epochs of dedication, which may be briefly described by the ruling motive of the dedicator,—friend. ship, money, friendship. Early dedicators, as in the......