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Daily Devotions For Children. By Mrs. G. W. Hinsdale....

—The prayers in this little book are generally simple and earnest, and within the reach of children's understandings. But they seem to ns too hard for children's memories, and......

The Old English Language.* Some Forty Years Ago A Few

zealous students of the old language of England endeavoured to arouse an interest in the Anglo-Saxon tongue. It was impossible, they avowed, fully to understand Eng- lish itself......

Three Legends Of The Early Church. By Christopher James...

miffier. (Bell and Daldy.)—The flight of St. Peter from Rome, the persecution under Nero, and the immersion of St. John in the cauldron of boiling oil are the subjects of Mr.......

Current Literature.

The Indian and Colonial Directory, 1868. (G. Street.) — This is a large and carefully arranged publication, containing the names of all English persons engaged in business in......

The Daily Prayer - Book For The Use Of Families. By Robert

Vaughan, D.D. (Jackson, Walford, and Hodder.)—In this book prayers for twelve weeks are given, each day's portion beginning with a passage of the Bible, and the prayers for the......

Never Forever. By Russell Gray. 3 Vols. (bentley.) —...

a woman's name, but this novel is evidently the work of a young lady. It is the purest girlish romance that can be conceived or has ever been executed. At the same time parts of......

Under Two Flags. By Ouida. Three Vols. (chapman. And Hall.)

—This story is sometimes interesting, and often exciting ; but it is simply absurd and impossible. The rose-pink atmosphere of a Guards- man's life which pervades the first......

The Book Of Common Prayer As Amended By The Westminster

Divines, A.D. 1661. Edited by Charles W. Shields, D.D. (Philadelphia : Claxton.)—Dr. Shields is a professor in Princeton College, New Jersey, and this edition of the......