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An Historical Sketch Of The Life Of Our Lord. By

W. T. Gordon, M.A, (Blackwood and Sons.)—This book is not intended by its author, nor is it suitable from its plan, to be placed side by side with the works of a similar title......

The Globe Encyclopedia. Vol. Vi. Edited By 3. M. Ross,

LL,D. (T. C. Jack, Edinburgh.)—This is the concluding volume of Messrs. Jack's compact and well got-up encycloptcdia, the publication of which was begun at the close of 1874.......

Nove Ls. — All The World's A Stage. By Mary A. M.

Hoppus. 3 vols. (Sampson Low and Co.)—This is a clover novel of life, by a writer who evidently has a good knowledge of the social and political affairs of the last thirty......

S C Hiner's William Tell. Translated Into English Verse,...

Essay, by D. C. Campbell. (Williams and Norgate.)— Schiller's great historic name can scarcely win a wider popularity in Germany than that which his genius has long ago achieved......

The Dark Shadow ; Or, The Blast. A Tale. (r.

Washbourno.) —This is a small book, with many purposes, some of them (such as the desire to help prisoners on their discharge by giving them a reasonable hope of better things ;......

We Have Received From Mr. Murray The Sixteenth Edition Of

his capital Handbook for Travellers in Switzerland, which is now bound up in two parts, for convenience, the second part being devoted to the Alps of Savoy and Piedmont. Plans......

The Kingdom Of Judah, By The Author Of "the Wide,

Wide World" (Nisbet and Co.), one of the "Golden Ladder Series," contains in a remarkable degree that mingling of luxury and piety so notice- able in the works of some American......

Lcssing's Dramatic Works. Vol. Ii. Ernest Boll, M.a....

and Sons.)—This volatile contains eight of Lessing's plays (comedies) ; of those, tho first five are now for the first time trans- lated into English. " Damon ; or, True......