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Seven Essays On Universal Science. By Thomas Clark...

Hardwicke.)—An air of ridicule is thrown over this work by its pretentious title, and by the author's having been so ill advised as to prefix to it his portrait and autograph, a......

Love And Jealousy, Europa, And Other Poems. By The Rot.

Gerrard Lewis, B.A. (R. Hardwicke.)—It is probable that Mr. Lewis is a very young man, and if so, these verses are decidedly creditable to him. They are sensible, smooth in......

History Of The Christian Church From The Reformation To The

Present Time. By J. H. Kurtz, D.D., Professor of Theology at Dorpat. (T. and T. Clark, Edinburgh.)—.A manual of Church history, written in a strongly Lutheran spirit. When Dr.......

More Pleasure In Commending These Two Biographies. The...

these great men's lives is told clearly, and the life of Shakespeare con- tains besides a great deal of useful information as to the early editions of the poet and other points......

Little Blue Hood. By Thomas Miller. (low, Son, And Co.)—a

very pretty story, with a picture of the little heroine and her dog Trot on the cover. It affords a terrible warning to little girls how they let their dogs lead them up......

A Treatise On The Chronology Of Siriadic Monuments. By...

Bey, C.E. (For private circulation.)—This gentleman, who was formerly in the Egyptian service, has convinced himself by researches "into the physical constitution of the Nile......

Endkuas Of Jesus. (situpkin And Marshall).—a Collection...

emblems under which the Scripture writers have described Christ, with explanations and expansions by some one who belongs apparently to the "sweet" theological school. The gems......

Autobiography Of An English Detective. By Waters. (j....

of an apparently endless series. Stories of crime, and particularly of crime punished, have always an interest, the latter rousing that hunting instinct which is latent, more or......

Thyra Gascoigue. By The Late Mrs. Edmund Jenings. Three...

(Tinsley Brothers.)—The author of "My Good-for-Nothing Brother" ebtained so considerable a reputation by that work that this second -effort of the same pen was naturally......

.woxia ; Or, The Daughter Of Gehofen ; And Spare

Hours. Poems. By Henry J. Smith. (Ludwig Denicke, Leipzig.)-31r. Smith, who has been "denied the advantages of a liberal education and opportunities for study," sat himself down......

Art Ana Fashion, With Other Sketches, Songs, And Poems. By

Charles Swain. (Virtue, Brothers.) Winter Weavings — Poems. By Isabella Law. (Smith, Elder, and Co.)—Two of those volumes which are the despair of criticism, they are so......