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Lilo Of St. Francis Of Assisi. By The Rev. F.

Leopold de Chevance. Translated from the French by R. F. O'Connor. (Burns . and Oates.) —1t is to be wished that Father de Chevance bad told us something about the discovery of......

The Brothers Witien. Memoirs And Miscellanies. Edited By...

Pattison. (Hodder and Stoughton.)—The two Wiffens wore members of the Society of Friends, and natives ot Woburn. The elder, who died suddenly in the prime of life, was librarian......

Riguet Of The Tuft, A Love Drama. (macmillan.)—a Very...

little poem, in which a familiar story, with the moral that love makes beautiful that to which it is given, is told in melodious verso ; some- times, indeed, wanting in......

Current Literature.

Wrecked Lives ; or, Men Who Have Failed. First and Second Series. By W. Davenport Adams, (S.P.C,K.)—Mr. Adams does not make his purpose quite clear by his preface, in which he......

The Crookit Meg A Story Of The Year One. By

John Skelton. (Longmans.)—There is little to be said for the story, which is but a medium for introducing some very lively and vigorous sketches of character. These, drawn, one......

A Lady's Tour In Corsica. By Gertrude Fordo. 2 Vols.

(Bentley.) —Miss Fordo and her companions " did " Corsica very thoroughly, saw everything that was to be seen, and put themselves in a position to judge of the comfort or......